Land had called police on himself

Dominic Doyon was good and dead, and Toby Land had made a present of himself to police.
Land had called the cops on himself within hours of Doyon's death late on May 4, 2009, and he'd handed them a bag of his own bloody clothes and shoes, a court heard Monday.

Late afternoon the next day, Land sat slumped in a police interview room, convulsing in tears.

"I spoke to my lawyer and he told me not to speak to you guys," Land blurted out near the beginning of the interview tape, which was shown to the jury at his second-degree murder trial.

Doyon was found dead and bloodied in the living room of his apartment. The Crown alleges Land killed him with a sword and a hammer. Land has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

Sitting at a right angle to the inconsolable man in the video, Det. Sean Gordon went to work.

"That's totally your right," he told Land. "(But) someone's dead."

Land hid his head in his hands.

"I can tell this is eating you up, there, brother." Gordon said. "If you didn't have a conscience, you wouldn't be here."

Gordon started searching for something — anything — to draw Land out of his apparent grief.

There was flattery, because Land had called police on himself.

"That doesn't happen every day," Gordon said. "That's the most stand-up thing I've ever seen."

There was raw emotion. "What's your mom gonna think?"

There was even sympathy, because an underage girl had been saved from her relationship with the 31-year-old Doyon.

"You and I both know what he did. What he's been doing. Which isn't right," Gordon said. "Don't you think she's not going to thank you someday? For getting this guy outta her life?

"In the grand scheme of things, there's nothing better you coulda done for her."

Land said little, but the jury has yet to see all of the interview footage.

Earlier in the day, the girl who Gordon said should've been grateful to Land spent the day in the witness stand trying to keep her stories straight.

Now 18, her identity protected by a publication ban, the woman clung to her tale that, a month before he died, Land threatened to kill Doyon if he didn't leave the teen alone.

The woman told cops the men were shouting but she told court they were whispering and couldn't even keep straight the number of people in the apartment when it happened.