CALGARY — A judge has ruled that triple murderer Douglas Garland will spend the rest of his life in prison.
Justice David Gates imposed a sentence on the 57-year-old that would prevent his seeking parole for 75 years.
Gates says Garland carried out the murders with “meticulous planning and precision.”
Jeff McIntosh / The Canadian PressTriple murderer Douglas Garland will learn today if he will spend the rest of his life in prison when he is sentenced in a Calgary courtroom. Garland is escorted into a Calgary police station in connection with the disappearance of Nathan O'Brien and his grandparents, in Calgary in a July 14, 2014, file photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Garland said “no” when asked if he had anything to say in court.
A jury convicted Garland of three counts of first-degree murder for the 2014 deaths of Alvin and Kathy Liknes and their five-year-old grandson Nathan O’Brien.
Garland assaulted the trio in a Calgary home on June 30, 2014, transported them to his family farm north of the city, murdered and dismembered them and then burned their bodies to ash.
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