N.S. gunman's spouse, set to undergo restorative justice, lived 'in survival mode,' says lawyer

When Lisa Banfield was on a trip to Cuba with her common-law spouse and his parents, her father-in-law asked her to meet him in his hotel room, where he gave a warning.

Paul Wortman, whose face was swollen after being beaten up by his son near the pool by their resort, told Banfield that she needed to leave. 

“He’s just like … ‘I was a bastard to my wife, I was a bastard to my son, and Gabriel’s gonna do the same thing to you … don’t tell him I told you because he’ll, he’ll do more damage to me,'” Banfield later recounted

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