BY KEITH LACEY
Two daughters of a man charged with attempting to murder his former girlfriend testified they didn?t like the woman.
Michael Sellen, 47, has been charged with attempted murder after a woman, Helene Goddard, 36, was repeatedly stabbed while walking along a
downtown street last July.
Goddard testified Sellen stabbed her after they got into an argument after consuming alcohol and injecting cocaine.
Sellen denied stabbing Goddard. He testifed he left her alone after they argued and fell asleep in a railway car downtown.
Sellen?s daughter Kristy, 19, lived with her father and Goddard for an extended period. During one incident, Goddard threatened her after trying to get into her room, but she locked the door and she couldn?t get in, said the teen.
Goddard was a regular drug user and often drank. She would get mad when her father couldn?t obtain drugs, Kristy said.
?I?d say she has a bad temper...a very short temper when she wants drugs,? Kristy said.
Sellen?s other daughter Jessica, 22, said she didn?t like Goddard and would only visit her father when the woman wasn?t around.
She only witnessed one argument. Goddard falsely accused her father of assaulting her, she said.
?They shoved each other, but he didn?t touch her,? she said.
After her father was charged with attempted murder, she ran into Goddard while working as a waitress at a downtown bar. ?She said she was going
to follow me home...and I would need a new set of teeth,? she said.
Sellen?s trial was expected to wrap up this week, but defence counsel Herve Sauve and assistant Crown attorney Susan Stothart agree more time is
needed. The trial will resume June 13.
