GUILTY Canada - Alban & Raymonde Garon, Marie-Claire Beniskos, slain, Ottawa, 29 June 2007

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What was the motive in these attacks? Robbery? Dislike of civil servants? It isn't clear in the articles I read.

Lengthy article, lots of detail.
From the article this bit about veterans..

Bush seemed a bit arrogant and sometimes spoke critically of veterans, according to the group’s founder, Gordon Robb.

“He thought they shouldn’t be given any better treatment that anyone else,” said Robb, who is also a veteran and had served as a paratrooper in England during the Second World War."

“It was very disrespectful and absurd.”

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/what-we-know-about-ian-bush

"DRYDEN, Ont. — The man police suspect in the killings of three senior citizens and attempted killing of a fourth has always been very opinionated, with a strong personality that sometimes bordered on arrogance, the Citizen has learned through an extensive investigation.

Ian Bush was born on April 14, 1955. He grew up in the northern Ontario town of Dryden, where his older brother Norm is now a city councillor.

The paper and pulp town has been left shocked at the charges that first thrust Bush into the headlines — those related to the alleged attempted murder of a 101-year-old Second World War veteran. Residents of the town widely speculate, as Bush’s own lawyer has also publicly suggested, that the man may be experiencing some sort of psychological breakdown.

Beginning in 1969, Bush attended Dryden High School. In Grade 9, while his father William Bush was manager of the paper mill in town, Bush played on the Grade 9 midget basketball team, according to the school’s yearbook called the Argosy."

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ian-bush-trial-crown-wraps-case-1.4099958

The Crown has wrapped its case against Ian Bush — accused of killing a retired tax judge, the judge's wife and their friend and neighbour — by presenting a sequence of events leading up to the discovery of their bodies, as well as an excerpt of a crime novel Bush appears to have been writing.

Ottawa police Sgt. Dan Brennan took over the cold case in 2011 with a team tasked with having a fresh look at the file.

Under examination-in-chief Thursday by Crown attorney Tim Wightman, Brennan took the jury through what happened on June 29, 2007, the day investigators allege Alban Garon, Raymonde Garon and Marie-Claire Beniskos were killed.

 

[matou]

Ian Bush found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder in tax judge slaying

A man with a bitter hatred of the tax system has been convicted in the brutal killings of a retired tax judge, his wife and their neighbour, in one of Ottawa’s most high-profile slayings.


Ian Bush has been found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder in the slayings Alban Garon, his wife, Raymonde, and their neighbour, Marie-Claire Beniskos.


The verdict was delivered Wednesday in an Ottawa courtroom.


In 2007, the three were beaten and suffocated to death with plastic bags in the Garon’s Riverside Drive condo.


The 77-year-old former judge, his 73-year-old wife and Beniskos, 78, were found in a pool of blood on the living-room floor the day after the killings by a worried relative. Alban Garon had a plastic bag over his head, and a hangman’s noose around his neck.

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local...s-of-first-degree-murder-in-tax-judge-slaying