WOBURN, Mass., June 23 (UPI) -- Defense attorneys for Neil Entwistle, a former Massuchsetts man on trial for allegedly slaying his wife and infant daughter, delivered closing arguments Monday.
Attorney Elliot Weinstein told jurors Entwistle did not kill his family, but that his wife, Rachel, 27, shot and killed their 9-month-old daughter Lillian Rose, and then turned the gun on herself, The Boston Globe reported.
The closing arguments came after Entwistle's attorneys rested their defense without calling any witnesses, including the 30-year-old defendant, a British subject living in Hopkinton, Mass., at the time of the killings.
Entwistle told police he discovered the bodies of his wife and daughter after returning home from a two-hour errand run, saying he returned a .22-caliber gun he found at the scene to his wife's father's gun collection in order to preserve her honor.
In their own closing arguments, prosecutors called that scenario "unimaginable," contending Rachel Entwistle appeared happy and had recently moved back to the United States with her husband so her newborn baby could be near her family, the Globe said.
