The man who was stabbed to death by his common-law partner's 16-year-old daughter 16 months ago was seen as a lazy, grumpy intruder who contributed nothing to the family.

During his testimony in youth court Monday afternoon, the accused girl's older brother painted an unpleasant picture of the man who died on the living room floor of the family's Crestview home on Aug. 8, 2009.

"He wasn't wanted there,” the 18-year-old brother said of the dead man. "We told him to leave – myself and my sister and my mom – but he didn't.”

At the time he died, the man had been living at the Rainbow Road home for about seven years, the brother said. His relationship with the teen's mother had started as a romantic one, but that had ended after a couple years.

The man didn't leave, though; he continued to spend his days sitting in his arm chair, drinking beer and watching TV. He was sickly and skinny and had a bad cough, the brother said.

He never worked.

"He was always at the house, he made us feel like intruders,” he said. "He just sat around drinking beer all day.”

The accused, who is now 17, her victim and her family members all have their names protected by a publication ban because the girl is a minor being tried in youth court.

She has pleaded guilty to manslaughter, and admits she stabbed the man, but the Crown prosecutor is pursuing a charge of second-degree murder.

So far, there has been no evidence of sexual or physical abuse in the home.

When the brother left his family's house for a party on Lake Laberge at around midnight on Aug. 7, the man was in his usual post in the living room.

The brother said he figured his mom was in bed because she was no longer passed out on the couch where he saw her before going to his room. His sister was in her room.

He told the court he arrived at the party with his best friend at around 1 a.m. and spent the next hour drinking and hanging out until 2 a.m., when the host started doing the rounds telling everyone to go home.

His friend's phone rang. It was his sister.

"(She) was crying. She was hysterical and I couldn't understand what she was saying,” he told the court. "I told her to calm down and I went outside so I could hear her better.

"... She said, ‘I stabbed (him) like 50 times and I didn't stop until I saw his face.' ... She said she stabbed him in the chair.

She said he was still in the living room.” The girl said she was in her bedroom, her brother recalled.

The news stunned the girl's brother, and his first instinct was to to think something else was going on.

"I thought maybe she had taken some psychedelic drugs and was having a bad trip or something,' he testified. "... That's what I hoped at least.”

He grabbed his best friend and repeated what his sister had said. Both the teenagers were fairly drunk, they told the court, and neither should have been driving. But they needed to know what was going on, so they got in the car and made the 15-20 minute return trip to Crestview.

The brother briefly considered calling police, "but I thought maybe (my sister) was high on drugs, so I didn't want to get the police up there.”

During the drive, his sister called again and said she had taken her mother's car and gone to a friend's house. She asked her brother to meet her there, but he said he was going to Crestview to find out what was happening.

When they arrived at the house, and got out of the car, the two friends said they could hear the man screaming for help.

"I jumped out of (my friend's) car and hanging out the side window was (the man) and he was shouting ‘Call 911' and

‘Help!'” the brother testified. "I ran up the stairs and came into the living room. He was still shouting, leaning out the window.

"... He was covered in blood and his pants were down around his ankles.”

This didn't surprise him, he said later, because the man's pants were always falling down.

The brother said he picked up the house phone to call 911, but it wouldn't turn on.

His friend gave him her cell phone and he dialed the emergency number, but immediately handed in back and went to help the wounded man.

He said he knew from a Grade 9 first aid course to put pressure on the wounds on the front and back of the man's torso.

The wounded man grabbed the teenager by the collar and said, "(Your sister) stabbed me,” then fell to the ground.

"My mother appeared after a little bit,” the brother recalled, but he didn't know where she had come from. She had a stack of towels and was trying to help stop the blood.

"It probably took 10 or 15 minutes, but it felt like an hour,” the brother said of how long they waited for help.

911 records show that it took paramedics three minutes to get to the scene.

"(The man) was holding on to me, trying to say something, but his words had become unintelligible,” the brother said. The whistling sound he had noticed coming from a number of the wounds stopped, and the man collapsed.

Photos taken at the scene show the man's lifeless body lying on its side on the floor in front of his chair, his shirt soaked through with blood.

As the paramedics took over, the brother was led outside by a police officer who then drove him to the RCMP detachment.

When questioned, he lied and said he didn't know where the prime suspect was.

"I was filled with an overwhelming desire to protect my sister, " he said.

The girl turned herself in a few hours later.

"I asked her if it was about sexual abuse,” he said when asked what conversations he's had with his sister since then. "She said no.

"... I also asked if it was physical, if he hit her, and she replied no.”

Judge John Faulkner is presiding over the trial, which resumed today.