She called her the laser lady.
She should have called her the other woman.
Tammy Hands played both roles. She ran a laser clinic, and she was having sex with the married doctor from whom she rented her office space.
The doctor’s wife took the witness Tuesday at Hands’s extortion trial. The wife said she didn’t really know Hands’s name, much less the fact that Hands was having an affair with her husband.
Hands, 49, is on trial together with David Andrew Bondy, 46. They are charged with criminal voyeurism and extortion. Their trial began last year and after a nine-month hiatus, resumed in Superior Court his week. Hands videotaped her sexual trysts with the doctor and she and Bondy are accused of using the recordings to extort money from him.
The doctor’s identity is protected by a court-imposed publication ban.
When the doctor was on the witness stand, defence lawyers in the case grilled him about why he never provided his cellphone records to police. The doctor testified he used the cellphone to call Bondy, who was posing as a private investigator hired by the doctor’s wife. The doctor said he tried to get the records from Bell, but was unsuccessful. He said the police told him they could get them.
Assitant Crown attorney Tim Kavanagh admitted police never told the doctor any such thing.
Defence lawyers Roland Schwalm and Laura Joy tried to discredit the doctor. Schwalm suggested the doctor concocted a story about being extorted just like he concocted a story about the cellphone records because he knew he could lose his licence for having sex with Hands.
Court heard the doctor had treated Hands at his walk-in clinic. The doctor insists Hands was not “a patient, per se” but someone to whom he provided “episodic care.”
Sex with a patient is considered serious professional misconduct by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, the licensing body for doctors in the province.
The doctor reported being ambushed by Hands and Bondy after hours at his office the night of Jan. 25, 2010. The doctor said Bondy gave a false name and introduced himself as a private investigator hired by the doctor’s wife.
The doctor’s wife, on the witness stand Tuesday, said she had never seen Bondy before.
The doctor’s wife managed his business. Although she handled all the bills, her husband never came to her requesting copies of cellphone records.
She said she and the doctor have been separated for four years and are getting a divorce.
The doctor’s wife was the last Crown witness in the case. Hands and Bondy have the opportunity to testify Wednesday, but it’s unknown if they will.
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