Vey admits to conversations about murder plans in police video

Curtis Vey arrives at court in Prince Albert, Sask., on May 25, 2016. (Jennifer Graham / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Curtis Vey told police he could never have followed through with plans to murder his wife and alleged lover’s husband, a jury heard Friday.

A taped interview between police and the Saskatchewan man was shown in a Prince Albert court during day four of the murder conspiracy trial for him and Angela Nicholson.

Vey, charged alongside Nicholson with two counts of conspiracy to commit murder, told police in the interview he did have conversations with Nicholson about plans to murder their respective spouses but said he never could have went through with the plans.

He told police he and Nicholson talked about putting sleeping pills in her husband Jim Taylor’s coffee and said the tentative plan to kill his wife was to give her sleeping pills and then start a fire.

One of the alleged conversations — one in which Vey and Nicholson allegedly talk about staging a disappearance and a house fire — was captured on an iPod by Vey’s wife, Brigitte Vey, on July 1, 2013.

Court heard the recording earlier this week and was shown the taped police interview over two days — Thursday and Friday.

Vey told police in the portion of the video shown Thursday he knew his wife was recording him, and according to Friday’s footage, he said he didn’t turn off the iPod while having the conversation with Nicholson because he wasn’t expecting to be inside the house that day.

He said he knew his wife was recording him because she suspected he was cheating.

Vey and Nicholson have yet to testify in the trial. A defence lawyer in the case said earlier this week he wasn’t sure if the two would take the stand.

The trial is expected to go into next week. Several more witnesses, including undercover police officers who sat in cells with the accused, are expected to testify.

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CTV's Jules Knox was in court for day four of the trial: