The woman charged with the second degree murder of her husband testified in her own defence in a Calgary courtroom on Monday.
Heather Wilson-Duncan, 63, is accused of killing her husband Barry Duncan, 68, at the couple’s rural home near Sundre in December 2010.
Wilson-Duncan told police that they had been fighting that evening and said that her husband went into the master bedroom and came back with a weapon.
In a 911 recording Wilson-Duncan can be heard telling dispatchers “I just killed my husband.”
The former school teacher took the stand on Monday and insisted it wasn’t murder.
She told court that both she and her husband were drinking that night.
Prosecutors say Barry Duncan loaded a rifle, handed it to his wife, told her to shoot him and she did.
The defence claims that Wilson-Duncan didn’t know the gun was loaded and that she never meant to kill her husband.
Wilson-Duncan said she thought her husband was joking when he presented her with a gun.
She is out on bail and the case is being heard by judge and jury.
(With files from Elissa Carpenter)
