A lawyer for a Toronto senior charged with murder is urging jurors at the man's trial to find him not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder.
Charn Gill is telling the jury in closing arguments at Peter Brooks' trial that they must try to understand the senior's state of mind.
Seventy-six-year-old Brooks has pleaded not guilty to the first-degree murder of 72-year-old Jocelyn Dickson and the attempted murder of 91-year-old Lourdes Missier.
Crown prosecutors have told jurors that late one night in March 2013, Brooks used his cane to attack Dickson and Missier in their beds at the Wexford Residence in Toronto's east end.
Brooks has testified that a spirit in a dream told him to ``beat the crap'' out of his two fellow residents, and has insisted he didn't actually intend to harm anyone.
Gill says two psychiatrists who testified at the trial found Brooks had dementia on the day of the attacks.