"Strict Proof Thereof"

The disgustingly vile rapist, sexual predator, sadistic torturer, and murderous former commander of Canada's largest military base is challenging the validity and legality of a woman whose home he invaded and whom he raped and tormented.  He insists that her claims of traumatic emotional injury, aside from physical harm are not credible.

He denies from the height of his socially-responsive, moral judgement capabilities that she could possibly have suffered a loss of dignity as a result of his raping her, is now dependent on therapy and medical attention through the trauma she suffered when he assaulted her and she feared for her very life.  In filing a statement of defence, Russell Williams "denies" that his victim(s) "are entitled to the relief claimed".

This man stood trial on 88 criminal charges.  Those charges included murder, sexual assault and break and enter, among many others.  At the time of being charged, and before his trial took place, this man who felt no compunction whatever in entering the homes of his neighbours, looting them of young girls' underwear that he would later pose in and take photographs of, expressed concern for his wife's well-being.

It was, he informed authorities, a top priority that his wife suffer as little indignities and harassment as conceivable.  And his wife, Mary Elizabeth Harriman, has gone to some length to protect herself and to ensure that she remained out of the public eye.  She and her husband arranged to transfer co-owned property to her name for a nominal sum to legalize her ownership and hold it exempt from potential penalties.

This is one of the charges that the victim, Laurie Massicotte, has levelled against the pair.  Both of whom she is suing, along with the Ontario Provincial Police, for $7-million on the basis of her pain and suffering, mental distress and loss of economic advantage.  Her inclusion of the OPP in the suit relates to their not having informed vulnerable women int he area that a sexual assailant was in the area.

It also relates to their having insisted, when they entered her home after Russell Williams had departed,  that she remain bound, defenceless and nude, until a forensic expert arrived.  She remained in that position, helpless and miserable for fully five hours, with a covering thrown over her after their response to her desperate 911 emergency call.

Russell Williams' home invasion of September 20, 2009, when he blindfolded and bound her, sliced off her clothing, raped and demeaned her through photographing her forcefully in her state of vulnerability for his later gratification, ruined her life. Her action against him and his wife should be dismissed, however, according to Russell Williams.  That, despite his admission of having "assaulted" her. 

This is the man who tortured and murdered 27-year-old Jessica Lloyd of Belleville, and 38-year-old corporal  Marie-France Comeau, who worked at CFB Trenton under his command.  The family of Jessica Lloyd has also filed a lawsuit, as has done another "Jane Doe" victim.

Ms. Massicotte in her suit lodged with her three daughters as co-plaintiffs, claims that Ms. Harriman fraudulently took ownership of both shares of the $700,000 house after her husband's arrest, attempting to protect it from anticipated lawsuits.  This is the same Mary Elizabeth Harriman who complained bitterly when RCMP entered her home under a search warrant and left 'scratches' on her hardwood floor.

Demanding compensation.