Halifax man pleads guilty to murdering his mother in a fit of rage

Blair Rhodes · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 07, 2025 5:20 PM EDT | Last Updated: 19 minutes ago

A Halifax antheral has admitted helium killed his parent successful a acceptable of rage past fall.

Jonathan William Pinsky, 41, pleaded blameworthy to second-degree execution during a little quality successful Nova Scotia Supreme Court successful Halifax connected Monday afternoon.

Pinsky was charged aft the assemblage of Delina Pinsky, 71, was recovered successful the retention country of the Halifax condominium they shared connected Quinpool Road.

In an agreed connection of facts work into the record, Jonathan Pinsky said that helium had travel location connected the evening of Oct. 1, 2024, to find his parent aggravated and yelling astatine him. He aboriginal told constabulary helium thought she was aggravated due to the fact that she had to shout at him to crook connected the closed captioning of a DVD she was watching.

She ordered him to determination retired of the condo by 10 o'clock that evening and refused to further sermon it with him.

According to the statement, Pinsky flew into a rage and attacked his mother, punching and kicking her successful the midsection. He told constabulary helium believed she was "already probably dying" astatine that point, but helium smothered her with a pillow and stabbed her successful the cervix earlier leaving her successful the retention country covered with a sheet.

On Oct. 9, his leader requested a wellness cheque due to the fact that helium had not been astatine enactment for much than a week. Police were fto into the condo by the gathering manager, who reported an unpleasant smell. They saw what appeared to beryllium a bloodstain connected a partition and recovered Delina Pinsky erstwhile they opened the doorway to the retention room.

Jonathan Pinsky was arrested connected the evening of Oct. 11 aft helium was spotted by a co-worker who called police. He told the arresting serviceman that the weapon he'd utilized to stab his parent was astatine the bottommost of his backpack. The adjacent day, helium gave a afloat confession to police.

"Homicide successful Canada carries a mandatory beingness condemnation truthful helium volition beryllium receiving a condemnation of beingness imprisonment," Crown authoritative Stephen Anstey said extracurricular tribunal connected Monday.

"The lone contented is going to beryllium the eligibility for parole. Second-degree execution carries a mandatory minimum parole eligibility of 10 years little immoderate clip served successful custody. We are going to beryllium jointly submitting the mandatory minimum arsenic due for Mr. Pinsky."

Justice Josh Arnold has requested that a pre-sentence report be filed by June 2 and has scheduled a sentencing proceeding for July 2. Pinsky's member and uncle program to springiness unfortunate interaction statements astatine that time.