Richard Bain: 'I don't consider them lies. I just consider them trying to get what I need.'

Under cross-examination, accused murderer Richard Bainadmitted to the jury that he's lied three times since he was arrested for the 2012 election-night shooting.

"So you've told the jury ...that you're willing to lie when it suits your purposes?" Crown prosecutorDennis Galiatsatosasked on Friday.

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"Don't we all?" Bain answered."I don't consider them lies.I just consider them trying to get what I need."

Bain is accused of first-degree murder for shooting and killing a man outside Montreal's Metropolis nightclub on Sept. 4, 2012, while the Parti Qubcois celebrated its election win inside. Another man was seriously injured.

Bainlied to attract Facebook buzz

In court on Friday, Bain admitted to bending the truth on three different occasions.

In an audio recording posted to hisFacebook page,Bainstated the reason he went to the Metropolis that night was "so thatMaroiswould not be able to make her speech."

But he testified this week that claimwas a lie, told in order to draw people to his Facebook pageso that they would donate money towards a fund for Bibles, the victims' families and his own defence.

Richard Bain's audio Facebook post, April 2013

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The Crown entered as evidence this audio recording, uploaded to Richard Henry Bain's Facebook page. "It ended in tragedy," the jury heard. "This I deeply regret."

Another lie has to do with a 2013 meeting in the middle of the night between Bainand Sgt-Det. Daniel Prieur.

Prieur went to meet Bain in jail at 1 a.m.becausehe was told he had a confession to make.

Baintestified that was a"fallacy" he made up to get provincial police officers to come see him.He explained to the jury thathe didn't understand why he was being guarded by corrections officers instead of provincial police, and thatmade him afraid for his life.

The final lie has to do with a chainsaw that was found in Bain's SUV, parked outside the Metropolis the night of the deadly shooting.

"You said you lied to Det.Prieur about the chainsawnot being yours, becauseyou thought they would let you give it to a needy farmer?" the prosecutor asked Bain in court on Friday.

The accused confirmed that was the truth.

Bainfirstentered the witness box onMonday, testifying as part of the defence's attempt to prove that he should not be heldcriminally responsible for the shooting, which left one person dead and another person seriously injured.

The Crown, on the other hand, is arguing the shooting was pre-meditated and politically-motivated.

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Crown suggests link toBlue Bird Club arson

Earlier on Friday, during cross-examination,the Crown suggested that Bain told a psychiatristhe wanted to set fire to the Metropolis to stop people from escapingon the night of the deadlyshooting.

Bainsaid he had no memory oftellingapsychiatrist that.

TheCrown referred to two different interactionsBainhad with Dr.Marie-FrdriqueAllard in the weeks and months following the Sept. 4, 2012 shooting.

The Crown asked if it was true that Baintold Dr. Allardhewanted to set fire to the Metropolis,just likea deadly fireat a Montrealnightclub almost 40 years to the date of the election-night shooting.

Baintestified that he didn't remember eversuggesting that.

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On Friday, Bainwas grilled by Crown prosecutor DennisGaliatsatos, whoasked if he remembered telling Dr. Allard that his "plan was like the Blue Bird Club fire?"

The Blue Bird Club fire was an arson thatleft 37 people dead at a Montreal nightclub on Sept. 1,1972.

While Bain acknowledged that hedid communicate with the psychiatrist, he couldn't recall what he told her.

Crown: Did you want to be a martyr?

The prosecutor pressed harder, asking Bain if he remembered telling Dr. Allard he had military-grade bullets that would shoot through 10 people if they were lined up in a row.

He also asked if it's true that Baintold the psychiatrist he took two Cymbalta pills to have the guts to carry outwhat had come into his mind.

Bain said he doesn't remember any of that.

Galiatsatosasked Bain if he was prepared to die the night of the shooting, and if he wanted to be a "martyr" for the rights of the English-speaking community.

Bain said that no, that wasn't true, and told the prosecutor he was "fabricating."

Richard Bain was interrogated for a second time two days after the 2012 shooting.

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Over the course of his four-hour interrogation, Richard Bain first ducked police questions, then cried out for an ambulance, before finally collapsing to the floor.

Bain corrects his story

Bain was also questioned abouta trip he took to Las Vegas in 2011.

He'd previously testified that he boughta pair ofFerragamoshoes for $525 because hewas under the influence of an anti-depressantcalled Cymbalta.

Bain has blamed his actions the night of the deadly shooting on the same drug, which he testified makes it difficult for himto tell right from wrong.

But on Friday morning, he corrected himself while under the Crown'smicroscope.

"So when you said earlier in your testimony, you bought$525 dollar shoes because that's what you do when you're on Cymbalta, you actually weren't on Cymbalta?" Galiatsatos asked.

Bain confirmedhe was actually on a different anti-depressant at the time, calledEffexor.But he added that Effexorhad a similar influence on his behaviour.

The trial is expected to last until the end of July.