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Dylon Moreira alleged at his murder and attempted murder trial Monday that he stabbed his girlfriend “to protect myself” after she stabbed him.

And he testified that he does not recall stabbing his mother or a girl.

Moreira, 33, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend, Vanessa Legate, 41, and not guilty to attempting to murder his mother, Diana Moreira, 51, and the girl, 7.

The three were stabbed in Moreira’s mother’s house on Cayley Court in Kitchener, near the A.R. Kaufman Family YMCA, on Nov. 15, 2022, around 10 p.m.

Moreira told court that after he and Legate argued, he felt something strike the back of his head as he walked up the stairs. He said he soon realiz

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