Toronto Woman Plotted the Murder of Her Lover's Boyfriend, Court Told

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'Ashleigh Pechaluk hated her female lover's long-time boyfriend, whom she saw as an obstacle to their relationship, and that's why they formed a plan to kill him with an axe, a prosecutor says.

The 24-year-old woman and her lover, Nicola Puddicombe, carried out the plan to murder Dennis Hoy, 36, while he lay sleeping in a Queensway apartment on Oct. 27, 2006, assistant Crown attorney Tom Lissaman told a jury today at the opening of Pechaluk's first-degree murder trial.

"He was bludgeoned to death as he lay naked and asleep in his girlfriend's bed," Lissaman said.

Puddicombe, 36, who will be tried after this trial ends, stood to gain $250,000 as the sole beneficiary of Hoy's life insurance and pension policies, Lissaman alleged.'