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| Karissa and Philip Grandine are shown in this file photo. Metro/Screengrab/Myspace |
Torstar News Service
Disguised in a banana smoothie was a sedative — not enough for an overdose, but enough to make Anna Karissa Grandine drowsy and confused, the Crown told the jury in closing arguments on the final day of the first-degree murder trial.
That’s when Philip Grandine carried or coaxed his 20-weeks pregnant wife, to the bathtub, Crown prosecutor Donna Kellway said.
The former pastor and retirement home nurse may have gently held her head under the water until she drowned, or let gravity pull her non-resistant body below the surface, Kellway said.
Either way her death on Oct. 17, 2011 “was no accident and no suicide.”
Grandine, she said, acted with “intent to kill” the 29-year-old woman who stood in the way of him being with his mistress.
