At one point, Hicks claimed his client was not even a member of the Bandidos, which led the Crown to introduce as evidence a poem Gardiner had written for his girlfriend, "Love Not Lost", that was signed in his handwriting "Prospect Bandido Bull Manitoba". Hicks claimed the poem was forged by persons unknown, but Gowdey noted it seemed unlikely that anyone would want to break into Kellestine's farmhouse just to plant a poem to frame Gardiner. Like the rest of the accused, Gardiner expressed much anger that he was charged with murder, and used the trial to make sexual advances at the courtroom sketch artist Karlene Ryan (cameras are not allowed in Canadian courtrooms). When Stephanie Salerno testified about her late husband: "He became a much better man towards the end. He was a wonderful man...He was a terrific father", which caused Ryan to break down in tears. Gardiner's "callous" response to Salerno's testimony was to pass a note to Ryan reading "Why aren't you smiling?", going on to suggest that they should be dating. Kellestine sent a note to the journalist Jane Sims of "The London Free Press", asking for a free subscription since he was doing so much to help sell her newspaper. Kellestine shared the same cell block at the Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre with the child killer Michael Thomas Rafferty, charged with killing 8 year old Victoria Stafford, which led Kellestine to complain to the media about being forced to share the same cell block with him, saying that either Rafferty should be moved to another cell block or placed in the same cell with him so he could murder him.