During mealtime at the Edmonton Remand Centre on June 29, 2019, Clayton Berard approached the guard’s station and calmly reported that he and his cellmate had had a fight.

The corrections officer on duty, Derrick Lanigan, made a note to reassign the two men after inmates on Pod Five had finished their meals. Nothing about Berard’s demeanour gave him cause for concern. Once mealtime ended, Lanigan paged the cell on the internal intercom.

“I said ‘OK you guys, pack your stuff, you’re getting separated,” Lanigan testified in court.

“‘He can’t,'” he recalled Berard answering.

“‘Why can’t he?'” Lanigan responded. “To which Mr. Berard said, ‘He can’t, because he’s dead.'”

Berard, 44, began a trial Tuesday for his role in the death of Bruce Windsor, a sex offender. He faces a charge of firs

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