Tori Stafford murder trial: Terri-Lynne McClintic was high when she first met Rafferty, trial hears

Terri-Lynne McClintic, 19, will begin testifying Tuesday at the murder trial of eight-year-old Tori Stafford.

TORONTO STAR

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LONDON, ONT. — In the days leading to Tori Stafford’s abduction and murder, Terri-Lynne McClintic was high on a cocktail of drugs, including OxyContin and morphine.
Her day-to-day routine included, “getting high, that was pretty much it,” McClintic told jurors on Tuesday morning in her highly anticipated testimony.
McClintic, 21, also outlined how she met first Michael Rafferty in February 2009 while she was at New Orleans Pizza in Woodstock. It was a couple of months before Tori was abducted and murdered.
“I went to get pizza for me and my neighbour and my mom,” she said. Rafferty was inside and talking on the phone. The two struck up a conversation and McClintic remembers telling him her name. He then offered her a ride home. “I had a lot of stuff to carry and I said yes.”
Rafferty took her home in his car but stopped in the driveway where the two started chatting. McClintic said she was high that day too.
She did not end up going inside the house because Rafferty asked her if she wanted to hangout and go for a drive and she said yes. “Went for a drive around Woodstock, around Ingersoll,” said McClintic, adding she was getting along well with him.
McClintic said he did some stunts with his car and then “we had sex in his car.”
Earlier, Crown Kevin Gowdey read out McClintic’s criminal record starting from 2006.
Tori, 8, was abducted while walking home from school. McClintic and Rafferty were arrested a month later and charged with abduction and murder. McClintic pleaded guilty in Tori’s death and was sentenced to life in prison in April 2010.
Rafferty, 31, is accused in the first-degree murder, sexual assault and abduction of the little girl. His trial began on March 5.
McClintic is the Crown’s star witness and her testimony will be distressing, the Crown has already warned jurors.
She is expected to be on the stand all week and her testimony is garnering huge media interest. The main courtroom and the overflow courtroom were packed to capacity on Tuesday. Reporters and members of the public lined up as early as 6 a.m. to get seats in the two courtrooms.
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