"It looked like he was striking him, like he was punching down on him."

Moments after hearing his dying friend moaning a Calgary man heard his alleged killer speak to him, court heard Thursday.

“Mr, (Dennis) Hart said ‘suck it up, you can take more than that,'” Heath Basque told a Calgary Court of King’s Bench murder trial.

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Basque said he was walking home to his residence down the street from Sean Barber’s residence in the northwest community of Bowness when he “heard a commotion.”

He told Crown prosecutor James Thomas he looked through the balcony door of Barber’s home and could see murder suspect Hart sitting on the living room couch.

That’s when he heard, from the direction of the love seat across the room, “my buddy moaning.”

“He got up and he went towards whe

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