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Bizarre acts retold at trialNBW WESTMINSTER. B.C. iCP — A shocking laic of devil possession combined with an Armageddon prccoceupation and bizarre a els was heard Thursday in the B.C. Supreme Court trial of a man accused of killing six members of his family in nearby Coquitlam.The jury also beard testimony from a Vancouver psychiatrist that he signed commitial papers for Bruce Alfred Blackman, 23, one month before tl»c slayings because he believed the accused was in a “psychotic state. But Ihe family resisted the idea.Dr. Harvey Breen told the court that Blackman's sister, Roberta Davies, phenol early Jan. 18.1983, to say the family wauled Blackmancommitted and that he had a knife.l.oss than two hours later. Blackman was bcirg led away by police from the family home, lelling an officer hr was possessed by Ihe devil*’ and had murdered his lam ily, llio court was told.Inside the blood-stained house and carport, police discovered the bullet-riddled and bludgeoned bodies of Ihe six. described in court as an extremely dose and loving familyDead were Davies, 28. Black man’s mother Irene, 49. father Kichard, M. younger brother Kick, 1G. sister Karen Hhodcs. 25. and brother-in-law John Davies, 39.Much of Thursday's testimony recounted Blackman s drug takingand his fixation the previous three months with Ihe end of the world, the book of Revelations in the R.hie and his belief he was the anti Christ, possessed by the devil, and sometimes a female spirit he believed to be God.Throughout the testimony. Blackman at times shook ner-votslv, occasionally glancing at his psychiatric nurse Other limes he smiled at friends and relatives in the court.Breen testified he first met Rlaekman Dee. 1ft. 1982, when he was called to the Bluckrnan home by Davies, who said the accused had been Inking drugs heavily and had been engaged in bizarre rituals wilh body fluidsThe trial was expected to go to the jury today.
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