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A man accused in a London homicide was killed in a recent motorcycle crash, court heard on Monday, as a judge said she would have convicted him in the 2020 slaying.
Scott Pate was shot dead on Ashland Avenue after picking up food at the nearby East West Bar & Grill in east London on Oct. 7, 2020. Exactly four years to the day, three people accused were scheduled to be in court for the verdict by Justice Patricia Moore: Denny Doucet, Nicole Moyer and Jason Sylvestre.
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Doucet and Moyer were acquitted of conspiracy to commit robbery and manslaughter. In a stunning twist, court heard Sylvestre was killed in a recent motorcycle crash in Windsor. The judge said she would have convicted him of manslaughter in Pate’s death.
Pate’s loved ones stormed out of the courtroom in frustration on Monday.
During the trial, surveillance video shown to the court showed Pate, 27, entering the East West about 8:29 p.m. and leaving two minutes later. He returns at 8:39 p.m. and departs again after 10 minutes. A silver sedan pulls into the restaurant’s parking lot at 8:51 p.m., then turns around and parks nearby on Ashland Avenue.
Bartender Tammi-Lynn Stevens soon comes out of the restaurant with Pate’s order, three pounds of chicken wings, then moves out of frame. She previously testified she handed the food to Pate, who was in the backseat of a black sedan parked in the rear lot, an area not covered by surveillance cameras.
Minutes later, the black car pulls out of the parking lot and turns onto Dundas Street, while someone can be seen moving outside the silver car on Ashland Avenue before it speeds away.
Stevens reappears outside the bar two minutes later as police cruisers pull up to where the silver car was parked.
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