GUILTY Canada - Christophur Baur, 36, Winnipeg, MB, 3 Jan 2015 *Arrest*

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There have been a trial in November 2019, and a sentencing in February 2020 of James Morris in this murder case, but I can't access the articles in the Winnipeg Free Press from Europe. Please, are there anyone in Canada/the US who can access the articles, and see the verdict.

Thanks for the reminder!


Feb 4 2020 rbbm.
Feb 2020: Family defends victim's legacy
''Baur lived with Tourette syndrome and worked hard to overcome it, Levesque said. "Unfortunately, he had an even greater struggle in life… drug addiction."

It was that addiction, prosecutors argued at Morris’s trial, that pushed Baur into selling drugs to support his own habit.

On Jan. 3, 2015, Morris killed Baur, following a dispute over a $200 drug debt. He hid the body underneath the porch at his home, where it was discovered wrapped in plastic by Winnipeg police six weeks later.

Morris, 43, stood trial in November for second-degree murder but was convicted by a jury of manslaughter.


In finding Morris guilty of manslaughter, jurors rejected his claim he was acting in self-defence, but found he did not have the required intent to kill when he beat Baur with a bat and slashed his neck.


Prosecutors Monday recommended Queen’s Bench Justice Shawn Greenberg sentence Morris to 15 years in prison, arguing Baur’s killing amounted to a "quasi-murder."