Friend ‘worried’ about Woods’ reaction to wife’s affair

During cross-examination, she told defense lawyer Michael Nolin that she wasn't worried for her friend's physical safety, but was concerned about Dorothy and Woods getting into a “big fight.” Tawpisin said she had heard from Dorothy that Woods had a “volatile temper,” but that he had never been violent.

She told the Crown that Dorothy also recalled how her husband went through her phone in October 2011 and found text messages from Wayne Lewis, another man who she had met through a dating website. Woods then sent a threatening text message to Lewis, which scared him away, Dorothy allegedly told Tawpisin.

Lewis testified Friday that he and Dorothy had sex twice: once in a motel room in September 2011, and another time in her red truck in October 2011. He said Dorothy had indicated that she was separated and living alone.

Then on Oct. 22, he said he “got a text that didn't seem right” from Dorothy's phone after the two had been texting back and forth.

According to Lewis, the first text message was actually transcribed from a message left on his voicemail in the middle of the night. It read “Hey Wayne, why are you still calling my wife?”

“It was not from her,” Lewis testified, referring to Dorothy. More profanity-laden threats were sent from her phone before Lewis started receiving angry messages from a different phone number, which police confirmed belonged to Woods.

“This is Dot's husband,” one message read. “U left yr condom wrapper in the backseat of the truck.”

Lewis said he replied, and asked the sender to leave him alone.

“Have a friend who finds people 4 a living. I'll be talkin 2 him,” the person wrote back. Lewis said his wife received a phone call from a man shortly after.

Lewis said the texts stopped for a period of time until he received a racist, threatening message from Dorothy's phone on Nov. 15. A police officer testified it was almost identical to a text message sent to another one of Dorothy's lovers, Derrick Brown, on the same day.

Nolin asked Lewis if he had ever met Woods prior to the trial. Lewis said no.

Another friend of Dorothy's, Sherry Wilson, testified Friday morning. She said Dorothy came to her house the morning of Nov. 11 because she was locked out. She stayed for about 20 minutes and said her marriage was over, Wilson testified.

That was the last time Wilson saw her friend. She said Woods called her on Nov. 13 and said he was looking for his wife. According to Wilson, Woods said his daughter saw Dorothy leave the house in someone's vehicle after getting groceries on Nov. 11, and that they went looking for her the next day. Wilson said Woods then told her he'd never hit Dorothy. “I thought it was kind of odd,” she testified.

After the phone call, Wilson said she continued trying to contact Dorothy for days but got no reply.

“She wouldn't leave her kids,” Wilson told the court.

Crown prosecutor Michael Segu will call his last witness on Monday. Nolin told the jury he plans on calling evidence that afternoon. Justice Marty Popescul indicated that closing arguments could take place as soon as Wednesday.

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Friend ‘worried’ about Woods’ reaction to wife’s affair

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