Mike McIntyre, Selkirk, Manitoba (Winnipeg Free Press) – A Manitoba RCMP officer claims he is the victim of a vindictive plot by his Crown attorney ex-girlfriend who falsely accused him of criminal harassment.
Cpl. Jeff Moyse testified at his trial Wednesday, accusing Debbie Buors of trying to goad him into a confrontation after their eight-month relationship ended in December 2008. The pair had met while working in the northern Manitoba community of Powerview.
“She told me if she wanted to, she could make my life miserable, that I better watch my step with her. She told me she was capable of anything,” Moyse said.
Moyse said he believes Buors was trying to “set up something physical” so she could build a criminal case against him.
Buors sent an e-mail on March 11, 2009, saying she was putting Moyse “on notice” that she would seek a restraining order or criminal charges if he contacted her.
She appeared at his RCMP detachment the following day to interview two victims of crime. Moyse initially refused to let her in the building.
“I knew she had a different agenda against me. I was completely being entrapped by her. I wanted her to be kept away from me,” he said.
Moyse said Buors often behaved bizarrely.
In December 2008, he said he found her hiding under her covers following an argument with her teenage son.
He said Buors screamed at him when he offered to help, adding she no longer cared about anyone.
Buors has told a different story in court, saying Moyse wouldn’t accept the end of their relationship and flooded her with hundreds of unwanted phone calls, e-mails and text messages.
But one of Buors ’s coworkers testified Wednesday that she shared her concerns about Moyse.
Prosecutor Lisa Carson told the court about a voice-mail message that Moyse left for Buors just days after her father died in January 2009.
“It was very angry, very confrontational . . . When I listened to it, I started shaking,” Carson said. “I was very concerned about her safety.”
Defence lawyer Gene Zazelenchuk said Wednesday that Buors sent “mixed messages” to Moyse by contacting him days after claiming she didn’t want to speak with him again.
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