A Toronto lawyer arranged his husband’s murder with his lover in order to collect on a $2 million life insurance policy, a prosecutor told a jury Monday at the start of a murder trial in a downtown courtroom.Crown attorney Anna Tenhouse presented a description of the prosecution’s anticipated evidence, including details of a bitter breakup, a torrid romance, salacious emails, and allegations that the accused men killed the victim after he bankrolled their European travels.At the centre of this love-triangle trial is Allan Lanteigne, a University of Toronto accounting clerk who was beaten to death in the entranceway of his Ossington Ave. residence on March 2, 2011. His body was discovered the next day.Accused of first-degree murder is Lanteigne’s husband, Demitry Papasotiriou-Lanteigne, who has pleaded not guilty. The couple married exactly 13 years ago, on Nov. 27, 2004, at Toronto City Hall.Co-defendant Michael Ivezic, a Mississauga married father, has also pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. The Crown alleges he became Papasotiriou-Lanteigne’s lover after his marriage to Lanteigne fizzled out in 2008. Despite their split, Papasotiriou-Lantiegne and Lanteigne continued living together. Papasotiriou-Lanteigne, a lawyer, bought the home with two relatives. Their names — but not Lanteigne’s — were on title.“While the marriage did not formally end, by 2009, Mr. Papasotiriou-Lanteigne was involved in an intensely intimate relationship with Mr. Michael Ivezic,” Tenhouse told the jury.Jurors will see emails in which Ivezic refers to Papasotiriou-Lanteigne as his “Baby B-O-I” and Ivezic was referred as “Daddy,” Tenhouse said. She read several steamy excerpts.Papasotiriou-Lanteigne gave Ivezic a key to the Ossington home to use as a place to have sexual relations, the prosecutor said.In 2009, Papasotiriou-Lanteigne was accepted into a PhD program at the University of Lucerne, Switzerlan ...
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