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A judge will decide whether accused Kitchener killer Dylon Moreira acted in self-defence when he stabbed his girlfriend 21 times.

Justice Michael Gibson heard closing submissions from the Crown and defence on Thursday at Moreira’s trial in a Kitchener courtroom. The date for Gibson’s judgment has not yet been set.

Moreira, 33, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the 2022 death of his girlfriend, Vanessa Legate, 41, and not guilty to attempting to murder his mother, Diana Moreira, 51, and a seven-year-old girl.

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.

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