Marie Magoon, Spencer Jordan trial: Undercover officers testify to Mr. Big operation
CBC News | Posted: April 11, 2015 12:08 AM | Last Updated: April 11, 2015
Meika Jordan died in November 2011 of blunt force trauma to the head
The father of six-year-old Meika Jordan admitted to an undercover police officer he beat his daughter in the days leading up to her death in November 2011.
Spencer Jordan and his common-law wife, Marie Magoon, are on trial for first-degree murder in the death of the little girl.
In 2012, Marie Magoon and Spencer Jordan were the targets of a months-long "Mr. Big" undercover operation.
On Friday in a Calgary courtroom, undercover officers testified about the operation, which involved befriending Jordan and inviting him into a made-up criminal organization in an attempt to get a confession.
The court heard a covert tape recording of one of the meetings. In the four-hour recording, Jordan tells an undercover officer he hit his daughter in the stomach and pushed her so hard she hit her head on the floor.
'Her death doesn't make sense to me'
"Me and my wife were fighting and I ended up taking out a little bit of anger out on my daughter," Jordan told the undercover officer. "More or less just pushed her. But I remember her falling back on the hard tile floor and she smoked her head pretty good."
He also confessed that he knew Meika didn't die from falling down the stairs, despite what the couple had told police and paramedics.
"Her death doesn't make sense to me," said Jordan on the covertly recorded tape.
Jordan went on to say his daughter's death "doesn't make sense" to him and he "feels guilty as hell."
At one point, the undercover officer asks Jordan about Magoon.
"I trust my wife, but this has put a lot of questions in my head," Jordan said.
Meika's family wept in court as they watched the video.
The Crown is presenting the evidence in an effort to have the judge rule it as admissible.
The Court of Queen's Bench Justice Rosmary Nation still has to decide whether the video will be admitted as evidence in the trial.