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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
The Holmolka case highlights the bias in law towards down charging female violent offenders mostly, Crown realized they didnt have enough evidence to charge Bernado, let alone convict at first, they knew full well both were involved and made the decision to offer her the manslaughter charge in order to put him away for ever.
What she knew and they should have was the existence of video tapes of the crime in their house, they were discovered later in a bathroom cabinet if I remember right, truely shoddy police work that allowed her to get away with murder.
Holmolka was clearly some level of sociopath but neither socio or psychopaths are considered mentally ill in the eyes of the law, they know right from wrong and are utterly lucid.
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I don't remember a lot of details of the Bernardo/Holmolka case but I do remember a doctor at trial pointing out the numerous sex assaults Paul did before she was in the picture and compared her to a nazi concentration camp survivor that was forced to commit awful acts to survive and was groomed by Bernardo's sick mind.
I suppose we never will know the full truth but by all accounts she was perfectly normal before Bernardo and after her 12 years in jail.