Ontario man accused of setting fire to his wife says her death was very bad accident [Video]

Norbert Budai repeated over and over Wednesday while testifying in his own defence at his first-degree murder trial that he never meant to hurt his wife, Henrietta Viski.

The 41-year-old explained he only wanted to remove Viski’s dyed hair which, in his mind, represented an adulterous relationship she was having.

“I never wanted to hurt her. I didn’t think it through. This whole thing was a very bad accident. I don’t know how this happened. I cannot explain it, ” Budai told the court, speaking through a Hungarian translator on the second day of the judge-alone trial.

It is an admitted fact that Budai doused his estranged wife with gasoline from a red plastic jerrycan he brought to her Chester Le Boulevard townhouse on the afternoon of June 17, 2022.

Surveillance video shown in court shows Budai breaking into her unit before dousing her with gasoline in the foyer. She can be seen …