Accused in fatal stabbing of Helix guitarist changes his story during police interview

The second-degree murder trial continued in London for Craig Allan in connection with the stabbing desk of Daniel Fawcett, CTV;s Nick Paparella has the details.

Just hours after 50-year-old Craig Allan was arrested in the Greater Toronto Area on November 11, 2022, he was brought into London Police Headquarters and questioned by Detective-Sergeant Micah Bourdeau.

The recording of his questioning was played extensively by the Crown in a London courtroom on Friday as the trial continued.

One of the first things Allan told the officer was, “I haven’t been to London in a least a month… I’ve been in Windsor, Chatham and Toronto."

But then he was shown a surveillance photo of himself with a friend at the Tim Horton’s at Talbot Street and Oxford Street, not far away from where the lifeless body of 52-year-old Daniel Fawcett was found in Gibbons Park.

It was the same day that Fawcett died, November 6, 2022.

He then told the officer, “That’s me...it’s around 2:00 [a.m.].”

Asked if he had ever been to Gibbons Park, Allan responded ‘no’.

But then he was shown another photo of the same friend he was with - and that person was seen walking with the victim just a short while later.

A jogger would eventually find the body of Fawcett in the park in the hours that followed. He died from a stab wound to the heart.

Allan has been charged with second degree murder, and has pled not guilty.

Later in the interview Allan told Detective-Sergeant Bourdeau that he’s from the Windsor area, and that he used to drive a forklift for a living before getting into crack cocaine - saying, “I’ve got a lot going on in my life right now, I’m trying to find a place to live.”

He said he knew Fawcett because in the past they had smoked marijuana together at Fawcett’s apartment.

The Crown will continue to play the recorded interview with Allan when the case resumes on Monday.