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During the meeting, court heard, they called another guard on speaker phone. When asked by defence lawyer Michael Edelson why the guard was called, Roy said he couldn’t recall, then said, “I don’t know who he is.”

“Sir, please. You met him in person, had a meeting … and he represented you at your disciplinary hearing,” Edelson countered.

I don’t recall,” Roy replied.

“He’s the guy who helped save your job and you don’t remember him?” Edelson asked.

“I don’t recall,” Roy again replied.

Edelson, who has been tearing apart Roy’s testimony this week, suggested the reason for the meeting and conference call was to gather intelligence on what investigators knew about the alleged Oct. 23, 2010, beating.

Roy revealed that he learned at the conference call and meeting that “everyone knows Johnny (Barbro) kicked Mr. Rhéaume.”

Roy, 26, has been anything but firm on the stand, often replying that he couldn’t recall the bloody events of 2010. He has also had trouble remembering what he testified from one day to the next.

Roy told court on Wednesday that he deliberately left out information from his occurrence report because he wanted to protect Barbro, whom he described as a friend. But Edelson quickly established that the two men had never been to one another’s homes, and had never gone to a single event together.

The court heard that Roy was fired from the jail in June for dishonesty, deception and falsifying records about another, unrelated incident in which Roy corroborated a fellow guard’s story about an inmate spitting at him. But jail officials concluded he couldn’t have been a witness because security video showed him in another section of the Innes Road jail at the time.