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Emmanuel Owusu-Ansah guilty of second-degree murder in Bridget Takyi's death

Emmanuel Owusu-Ansah guilty of second-degree murder in Bridget Takyi's death

Emmanuel Owusu-Ansah was found guilty of second-degree murder in the brutal 2013 killing of his estranged girlfriend, who he stabbed to death and then set on fire.

The jury delivered its decision in court late Thursday.

Owusu-Ansah, 30, had been charged with first-degree murder. His defence team had argued he should be charged with manslaughter in the case.

Owusu-Ansah was out on bail under house arrest in January 2013 when he killed Bridget Takyi, the 27-year-old mother of the former couple's children, on Etobicoke's Richgrove Drive.

Owusu-Ansah had been charged with assaulting Takyi with a weapon and threatening to kill her a month before the slaying.

He is set to be sentenced at a later date.