4- The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday May 30, 2007 www.oakvillebeaver.com Accused returned to work two days after sister's death Continued from page 1 Helen's death on July 3, 2005, and is pleading not guilty on the basis of self defence. Formerly a reconciliation manager at RBC, Arsoniadis didn't come to work on Monday, July 4, 2005, for his usual 7:30 a.m. 4 p.m. shift, the court heard yesterday. D'Albret told the jury Arsoniadis called in and said he was tired from moving the day before into his Oakville apartment, so she gave him the day off to rest. When he came to work the next day, all three of his co-workers say they noticed a cut on his forehead, which he said was from moving a mattress. D'Albret said she joked with Arsoniadis that "maybe he'd been in a fight," and that's why he'd taken the day off. "I knew that George was not the type of guy who would be a fighting kind of guy," she said. "That's why I made the joke." Both D'Albret, who hired Arsoniadis Dear Roger, how do I balance my portfolio? Trust a banker with your money. Trust Roger with your comfort. Now offering duct cleaning at a savings of $75. Find out how at askroger.ca in Feb. 2005, and Rashida Arain, who sat in the cubicle next to him, said they pointed out the cut to him and he touched the wrong side of his forehead. Arain described it as "a tiny cut," while another co-worker Kim Wilson said it looked "almost like he rubbed up against a brick or cement of some kind." In addition to the cut on his forehead, his co-workers noticed scratches on his hands. "I didn't really think twice of this because I knew that he was moving," D'Albret said. Other than the cut and scratches, both D'Albret and Arain testified they didn't notice any unusual behaviour from Arsoniadis when he returned to work two days after he says he caused the death of his sister. "He seemed fine," said Arain, who earlier described Arsoniadis' everyday demeanor as "calm, fine. Nothing unusual." Wilson told the court she did notice a change in Arsoniadis on the Tuesday after the July long weekend. "I observed the usual, that (he) was very quiet, but I noticed he was a little jumpy." Wilson said she would touch Arsoniadis' shoulder before talking to him and "he would jump up" from his seat. In his cross-examination yesterday, defence attorney Paul O'Marra asked whether it would be fair to call Arsoniadis a quiet guy who kept to himself. All three witnesses agreed with this statement. Earlier in their testimony, Arain and D'Albret both testified he told them he was moving to Oakville and would be "temporarily" living with his sister, but neither heard any names or details. Two police officers also took the stand Tuesday, including Constable Stephen Elms, who found a bag containing what he said "appeared to me to be some kind of organ" at a garbage transfer station in Burlington on July 14, 2005. About 10 officers sifted through the garbage in full protective gear and gas masks, opening the bags up by hand, Elms said, "looking for body parts" in connection with the homicide. Nearly two hours after they first arrived, Elms came across a bag with "a few layers" that had been knotted several times and matched the description of bags containing body parts he'd been told were found in the Arsoniadis' Oakville apartment. Detective Constable Laura McLellan took the stand Tuesday while the jury was shown pictures she took of the bag's contents. Having videotaped the entire scene in the apartment before coming across the bag in the garbage dump, McLellan told the jury she noticed "a few things that were of great interest to me" in the bag. Two green plastic cups and silver stove liners she recognized from the apartment, as well as a "heavily soiled" manual for a fireplace that matched the brand of the one in the condo were in the bag. At the bottom of the garbage bag was "a piece of what I describe as meat or flesh," McLellan said. "It was meat-like, or flesh-like on the top and when we flipped it over it was pink coloured on the bottom." The officer said she had "no idea what it was." She said another bag containing a "rib-type" bone was also found, but that as far as she knows, nothing was ever made of it in connection with this case. The jury also saw video evidence yesterday taken from security cameras at 40 Old Mill Rd. in the main lobby, parking lot and hallway, as well as videos from Home Depot and Canadian Tire in town that show Arsoniadis buying cleaning supplies, garbage bags and a Jobmate multi-tool. Prior to testimony, yesterday the crown said its case was moving faster than expected. 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