I don't believe they broke up, they pretended to. On youtube, it shows all the conversations that the jury saw. Most of it irrelevant, conversations with tenants at his condos - fixing appliances, stuff with his mechanic etc... Then a conversation between DM and CN, where CN says "what's wrong with this picture", the one from medieval times or some other occasion. She finally tells him "Laura is in the picture". Then she says "was it you who said it was cruel of me to want to see Laura hurt" and DM responds, "it wasn't me". AM thought it was cruel and sort of butted in, he asked DM if he could date Laura, despite the fact that they had been broken up for a while but also to let CN know that LB may not have known better to tell a "players" GF that he wasn't faithful, but she didn't have the courtesy to ask Laura if she could date her friend whom she met through LB! AM also went to see Laura and told her in both a text message and in person to be careful around DM and CN, he told her nicely, told her she was "super nice and means well", but she should be careful and had upset DM and CN. After that, LB contacted DM and apologized and I'm sure DM told CN she apologized and that all she wanted was a regular pot dealer. AM then quit smoking pot and went to Winnipeg to do a plumbing apprenticeship (he couldn't get one in a large city such as GTA?).
My interpretation of this is that there were two well raised boys at this trial, AM and SL. CN figured out that AM was going to talk DM out of doing anything harmful to LB. CN also told DM that AM liked LB and that LB is a liar who plays girlish games pretending not to like a guy that she's wanted all along, trying to make him jealous with other boyfriends, throwing herself at him, playing the part of Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman with her blonde wig, excessive makeup, escort job etc... She didn't realize, he wasn't Richard Gere, he was American Psycho, to some extent. CN was probably right, I played LB type games when I was her age. The break up was staged, to see if all AM wanted was to sleep with DM's ex's or whether he really cared for LB, which would mean that he would either tell or wouldn't allow LB's murder to happen. It was also staged to see if LB was really interested and would try and contact DM again if it was known he was single. AM of course, saw it coming, knew as a friend he would be asked to help out and decided it was best to avoid the whole thing and leave town until it all blows over.
LB was also beat up outside Sherway Gardens, the original suspect was a man she had named David something whom she claims assaulted her and raped her friend, she also charged him with theft under 5K. She told Meghan Orr that she hit her own head against a wall and threw herself down the stairs after which she was taken to a psychiatric hospital. The charges have now been dropped and this David guy now says that LB and her friend were doing coke and on some live sex site where they were recording themselves for others to see, so he thought it was okay to have sex with one of them. He explained his broken finger by saying he broke it after he hit a wall because he didn't know what else to do after LB beat him up! He claims she got the bumps on her head, the bruises etc... because she got caught stealing lipstick and then banged her head against the wall several times. I don't believe a word of what he says, I think he was hired by DM to "hurt" LB. This David guy is now nowhere to be found.
Everyone on this site says DM is a narcissist, I think he was a "lost boy" who was trying to assimilate to the crowd he had attracted, which were unemployed youths into doing drugs, getting into trouble, trying to find a place to "fit in" etc...I think CN is a narcissist, I know this because I am a self aware narcissist. The last thing a person should do is make a person with NPD feel stupid, they can be highly manipulative. Do you how stupid a narcissist feels when someone they love, whom they think they have a future with, fools around on them? They will get the message and in turn, make sure you get the message. CN told DM to "go screw himself". How? Manipulating him into murdering LB, getting "turned on" by his "covert missions and thefts", telling him she feels "loved" when he talks about hurting Laura and getting rid of her.
I hope DM finally got the message, he's already screwed himself and she walks away smiling.