Ein wegen Mordes angeklagter Mann aus Montreal hat zuvor in Vancouver eine Frau erstochen
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-homicide-vancouver-9.7127357
Ein wegen Mordes angeklagter Mann aus Montreal hat zuvor in Vancouver eine Frau erstochen
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-homicide-vancouver-9.7127357
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A serial killer enabled by our weak justice system. Simply valuing the killer’s freedom more than the victim’s justice will lead to more and more victims.
Lovely. Another violent criminal given a sweetheart deal to reduce 2nd degree murder to manslaughter, despite continuing to commit violent crime while awaiting trial.
Released on conditions after a ridiculously short sentence, that were violated, tried to kill his cat by throwing it, and given an 8 month sentence knocked down from the 30 months the prosecutor requested. Goes on to kill an innocent shopkeeper.
How is he not DO at this point?
This man committed Femicide (only got 7 years!?), strangled his rabbit to death and threw his cat with the intent of killing it , assaulted an inmate as well as a prison guard, and he was walking free on our streets. This country is not real.
Canada’s justice system is completely failing women and their safety to live in this country. This man should have spent a lot longer than 7 years in the first killing, he was already a violent individual and should never have been given leniency for such a callous, abhorrent act against an innocent bystander.
Has he made bail yet?
Why doesn’t Canada have the death penalty?
Catch and release…the Canadian way.
Guy sounds like a winner.
We’re not a real country 🤦🏽
> Gellatly has had numerous, often violent, run-ins with the justice system — including the previous fatal stabbing in Vancouver.
Nice. **Numerous, often violent** run-ins and he was walking our streets. We don’t care about women enough.
What do the law purists that inevitably descend on these threads preaching all is well inside the Canadian justice system have to say about this one?
Maybe he will finally be sentenced to rot for the rest of his miserable life in prison now. Only took the murder of an innocent shopkeeper to get here. Even then, I’m sure some bleeding heart activist judge will come up with every sob story and every excuse under the sun to keep him in prison for the least amount of time.
Our system puts so much emphasis on precedents but will the fact that this man was released before he was rehabilitated be a factor in future sentences for the same crime going forward? Our system is blind to outcomes like this, but filled with nuance when it comes to factors that allow judges to give less than the maximum penalty.
Canada is spending millions on an ineffectual gun buyback program when stabbing and gun homicides are almost the same annually, 32% versus 36% of all homicides in 2024.
It seems this guy knew how to fool judges into thinking he’s remorseful. Could they not dig deeper? Could those prosecuting not push back harder? The issues in jail while waiting sentencing on the manslaughter should have been huge red flags, totally obvious. And all that info should have factored in to the sentencing for the animal cruelty, bit for some reason they went low on sentencing for that one despite his history?
Isn’t jail supposed to reform people?
Normally I’m in favour of not being overly harsh. But this looks like a massive mistake. There is no ambiguity when it comes to killing someone, and there’s no ambiguity in killing and trying to kill animals. This guy was clearly very dangerous, and they let him off easy. Now someone’s family has lost a person who didn’t deserve to be murdered, in a crime that shouldn’t have been allowed to happen.
Canada is a fucking joke of a country.
Maybe if we all keep voting liberal they’ll eventually get around to fixing the Justice system in another 10 years or so. They’re a little pre-occupied with confiscating guns from legal owners, changing the laws to send people to prison for memes online and expanding the surveillance state against ordinary Canadians at the moment.
>In 2012, he killed Chelsea Holden, a 28-year-old mother of two, inside the Cobalt Hotel. During the same incident he stabbed another man seven times. He was convicted of manslaughter and aggravated assault and sentenced to seven years in prison, according to media coverage of the incident.
>The judge overseeing the case described Holden, the victim, as “entirely innocent” and little more than a bystander during the fatal encounter.
>In that case, Gellatly was initially charged with second-degree murder but he eventually pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
>He was sentenced to seven years in prison, which was in line with what prosecutors had asked for in the case.
Seems like this case involves multiple points of failure within the criminal justice system.
Numerous previous violent offences with little jail time.
Then he commits the cold blooded murder of an innocent bystander and the Crown Attorney, no doubt looking to lighten the workload with a long weekend coming up, agrees to plea him out at manslaughter. 7 years in jail, of which he probably did 4.
He assaults a prison guard and an inmate while in prison.
He then emerges from his time in prison, completely unreformed and commits two incidents of animal cruelty. Prosecution asks for 30 months, that judge gives hm 8.
And now, surprise, surprise…he’s a two-time murderer. I’m sure they’ll plea his worthless ass out on this one, too.