Canada - Bruce McArthur- Pleads Guilty - murders of 8 men, Toronto, 2010-2017 #2

[Sillybilly]

And so it is done. Can never seem enough.

Rest in Peace, gentle men.

 

[YESorNO]

Nick Westoll‏Verified account @NWestoll 6m6 minutes ago
McMahon commends the Crown attorneys for their professionalism and for their work on this case.
He also tells James Miglin, McArthur's attorney, it is not an easy task to represent a serial killer. McMahon says all accused require capable representation, and commends him.


Nick Westoll‏Verified account @NWestoll 6m6 minutes ago
McMahon commends @TPSHomicide Insp. Hank Idsinga, Det. David Dickinson and the officers involved in the criminal investigation for their work.
"You saved the life of the man referred to as 'John,'" he says, referring to the man found in McArthur's apartment by @TorontoPolice.


Nick Westoll‏Verified account @NWestoll 5m5 minutes ago
McMahon says he hopes the healing can now begin. And that's it for the judgement.


Catherine McDonald‏Verified account @cmcdonaldglobal 2m2 minutes ago
McMahon says this has been a very difficult case for everyone involved. Commending crown attornies for professional and fair manner it’s been carried out. You have brought justice to the community in a fair fashion. “Mr Miglin. Representing a serial killer is not an easy task”


Catherine McDonald‏Verified account @cmcdonaldglobal 2m2 minutes ago
Everyone is entitled to a fair trial. Mr Miglin you have conducted yourself in the highest tradition of the defence bar. I commend you for doing so. On the admitted facts before me. I also want to commend Mr Idsinga, Dave Dickinson and the investigative team


Catherine McDonald‏Verified account @cmcdonaldglobal 44s44 seconds ago
“I am convinced because of your teams work, you not only brought Mr McArthur, you saved the life of a man named John.” I hope that for everyone, through this, your healing can start. McMahon thanks everyone and leaves court

 

[Sillybilly]

Thank you YESorNO for capturing all those tweets and bringing them to the thread. Your time and hard work is very, very appreciated.

 

[YESorNO]

Thank you YESorNO for capturing all those tweets and bringing them to the thread. Your time and hard work is very, very appreciated.

 

[Bravo]

Thank You from me as well YesorNo. And there we have it. Rest in Peace you beautiful Souls.

 

[musicaljoke]

One thing about this sentence, is that it may discourage an appeal, lest in a subsequent trial he is given a longer sentence.

May it be that the sentence he received will keep him behind bars for the rest of his life.

 

[Iona]

One thing about this sentence, is that it may discourage an appeal, lest in a subsequent trial he is given a longer sentence.

May it be that the sentence he received will keep him behind bars for the rest of his life.

Indeed...
We can only hope...

 

[nobodyzgirl]

One thing about this sentence, is that it may discourage an appeal, lest in a subsequent trial he is given a longer sentence.

BM plead guilty to the charges which means he has given up his right to an appeal.

 

[YESorNO]

Bruce McArthur gets life in prison, no parole for 25 years

Feb 8, 2019

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Toronto serial killer will never see daylight again: Police

Feb 8, 2019

"Toronto police including Chief Mark Saunders, Det. Dave Dickinson and Insp. Hank Idsinga answer questions and give their thoughts following the sentencing of serial killer Bruce McArthur."

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[musicaljoke]

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[musicaljoke]

BM plead guilty to the charges which means he has given up his right to an appeal.

He can't easily appeal the finding of guilty, but he can still appeal the sentence. Which in his case would be a risky move.

See (11) https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SI-93-169/FullText.html

 

[YESorNO]

Justice McMahon's sentencing decision for serial killer Bruce McArthur (18 pages)

"Superior Court Justice John McMahon on Friday, Feb. 8, 2019, sentenced Bruce McArthur to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. McArthur had pleaded guilty to eight counts of first-degree murder."

Justice McMahon's sentencing decision for serial killer Bruce McArthur
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[Snoopster]

I believe that Mcarthur pleaded guilty to save himself the pain of trial. I don't think for a minute that it was to save the victims' families the pain of a lengthy trial.

The man has no remorse. If he could continue his killings he would.

I am disappointed that the judge gave McArthur 'credit' for pleading guilty, although in the end I don't think it will make a meaningful difference in BM's life as he will die before being paroled. But, it does impact the victims' families, as they see how little their loved ones' lives were valued.

Sigh.

 

[YESorNO]

I believe that Mcarthur pleaded guilty to save himself the pain of trial. I don't think for a minute that it was to save the victims' families the pain of a lengthy trial.

The man has no remorse. If he could continue his killings he would.

I am disappointed that the judge gave McArthur 'credit' for pleading guilty, although in the end I don't think it will make a meaningful difference in BM's life as he will die before being paroled. But, it does impact the victims' families, as they see how little their loved ones' lives were valued.

Sigh.

I am also disappointed. The judge should have given him the 50 years just for the victims' families- he's gonna die anyway before the 25 years, IMO, so what's the harm? But, I guess, the judge was thinking about the "law"...as any good judge should...

 

[YESorNO]

Bruce McArthur’s other horrors may still lie undiscovered

"Michael Arntfield is a professor and criminologist at Western University, where he founded its Cold Case Society in 2011 and was named its Humanitarian of the Year in 2017 for his work with victims of crime. He is the author of 12 books on crime history and serial murder, and is a director of the nonprofit think tank The Murder Accountability Project. He is also a former police officer.

If you’re like every other Canadian who picked up a newspaper, scrolled a social media feed or turned on the TV within the past week, you couldn’t help but be inundated – and revolted – by Crown attorney Michael Cantlon’s disclosures made during convicted serial killer Bruce McArthur’s sentencing phase in a packed Toronto courtroom. There was talk not only of the grotesque dismemberments and interments of many of his victims in planter boxes as already widely reported, but also of the postmortem posing and photographing of his victims, of souvenir and trophy collection and curation and of sundry other indignities. As disturbing as these revelations are, they are also not necessarily surprising...."

Bruce McArthur’s other horrors may still lie undiscovered
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[Snoopster]

Bruce McArthur’s other horrors may still lie undiscovered

"Michael Arntfield is a professor and criminologist at Western University, where he founded its Cold Case Society in 2011 and was named its Humanitarian of the Year in 2017 for his work with victims of crime. He is the author of 12 books on crime history and serial murder, and is a director of the nonprofit think tank The Murder Accountability Project. He is also a former police officer.

If you’re like every other Canadian who picked up a newspaper, scrolled a social media feed or turned on the TV within the past week, you couldn’t help but be inundated – and revolted – by Crown attorney Michael Cantlon’s disclosures made during convicted serial killer Bruce McArthur’s sentencing phase in a packed Toronto courtroom. There was talk not only of the grotesque dismemberments and interments of many of his victims in planter boxes as already widely reported, but also of the postmortem posing and photographing of his victims, of souvenir and trophy collection and curation and of sundry other indignities. As disturbing as these revelations are, they are also not necessarily surprising...."

Bruce McArthur’s other horrors may still lie undiscovered
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So, with all of these details in mind, including the fact that I can think of no serial killer on record who started murdering at such an advanced age as Mr. McArthur, that homicidal necrophiles tend to have long and devastating criminal careers with elevated victim counts, and that they also tend to be highly versatile and variable – a process known as polymorphism – in their victim selections, usually zeroing in on vulnerable or marginalized communities regardless of gender or age, why is there still no systematic inquiry under way into what Mr. McArthur was up to, if anything, between roughly 1978 and 1993?

My question, exactly.
There are other victims. IMO.

 

[YESorNO]

Why McArthur, Bissonnette and Millard got wildly different sentences for killing multiple people (with clip)
The disparity in the killers’ sentences illustrated the discretion judges have in cases of multiple murders

February 8, 2019

"On Friday afternoon, a few hours after Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years, Quebec mosque killer Alexandre Bissonnette received his sentence in the city where he shot dead six Muslim men in the midst of Sunday prayers: life without parole for 40 years.

The disparity in the killers’ sentences illustrated the discretion judges have in cases of multiple murders — and, in Bissonnette’s case, Quebec Superior Court Justice Francois Huot’s unwillingness to exercise a relatively new provision of the Criminal Code that allows for parole ineligibility periods to be imposed consecutively in certain cases.

While the Crown wanted Bissonnette, 29, barred from seeking parole for 150 years — six consecutive 25-year periods for each of the first-degree murder counts to which he pleaded guilty — Huot opined that a sentence that long would be “cruel and unusual” and thereby contravene Bissonnette’s Charter rights.

Prosecutors in McArthur’s case, meanwhile, sought a “measured” penalty of two consecutive sentences, or 50 years without parole. But Ontario Superior Court Justice John McMahon went with the defence’s recommendation, basing his decision on McArthur’s advanced age of 67 and the fact he decided to plead guilty.

Below is a breakdown of the judge’s sentencing rationale in four recent high-profile cases of multiple murders: McArthur, Bissonnette, Dellen Millard and Elizabeth Wettlaufer...."

Why McArthur, Bissonnette and Millard got wildly different sentences for killing multiple people
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MANDEL: Eight murders for the price of one (with clip)

February 8, 2019

"It is such a bitter pill.

Serial killer Bruce McArthur’s punishment for murdering eight men is exactly the same as if he’d killed just one: life without eligibility for parole for 25 years.

His reign of terror, begun in 2010 and only brought to an end 13 months ago, stole the lives of eight souls loved and missed and yet it’s as if he were allowed to kill seven of them for free....

...Justice John McMahon sentenced McArthur, 67, to a mandatory life sentence but with concurrent, not consecutive, periods of parole ineligibility of 25 years. He’ll be able to apply when he’s 91 but the judge noted — perhaps sensing the expected outcry — that “the chances of the accused being paroled are very remote at best.”

But what of the message it sends?...

... in his reasons for sentence, McMahon carefully explained that judges aren’t in the business of symbolism — they’re constrained by the law. And there is no such sentence in Canada as life without parole.

“Sentencing the accused to parole ineligibility until he is 116 years of age is symbolic,” he said. “There is a fine line between retribution, which is an appropriate sentencing principle, and vengeance.”..."

MANDEL: Eight murders for the price of one
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[dotr]

VIDEO w Peter Vronsky
Psychology of serial killer Bruce McArthur
"Psychology of serial killer Bruce McArthur
An expert examines what may have motivated serial killer Bruce McArthur to carry out his brutal attacks on eight men linked to Toronto’s gay village.
Feb 09, 2019"

 

[YESorNO]

Watch: Toronto police have no plans to release Bruce McArthur’s mugshot

Feb 08, 2019

"Homicide detective Hank Idsinga says the Toronto police have no plans to release the mugshot of serial killer Bruce McArthur because they do not feel it would aid them in their investigations."

Toronto police have no plans to release Bruce McArthur's mugshot
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[YESorNO]

In quotes: Reaction to Bruce McArthur's sentencing

FEB 8, 2019

"....Here’s some reaction to his sentence...."

In quotes: Reaction to Bruce McArthur's sentencing

(Bruce McArthur watches security footage of his van during his sentencing hearing on Feb. 4, 2019. SKETCH/Alex Tavshunsky)
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