Stephanie Beck’s pregnant dead body was dumped partially naked at the side of a snowy country road. The cause of death was strangulation.
She was known to have been a prostitute. She had cocaine in her system.
By handing what amounted to a one-day prison term to a man who admitted strangling this pregnant sex-trade worker, an experienced Ontario trial judge fashioned a “just sentence” that in no way devalues the victim’s life, the province’s highest court ruled.
Her killer told the court he was attacked without warning with a lamp and acted in self defense in his trailor. The Crown said there was no one alive to refute his story.
His neighbor saw him stuffing her pregnant dead body into his car. From this eyewitness, police were able to link him to the dumped dead body they had found.
The killer was a frequent customer of women like Stephanie Beck. The Crown asked for 7-10 years for this crime. Judge Stephen Glithero returned his verdict and stated, “In my opinion, he presents as a person with many admirable qualities,” and added that he thought the killer of Stephanie Beck has values of family, community and hard work.
The killer was then sentenced to a one day prison term.
“Devastated, we’re devastated,” Beck’s mother, Alice Dort, said from her home in Nova Scotia shortly after a police detective broke the news by phone. “This is just so unbelievable. There’s no justice. None whatsoever. I’m just so disgusted.”
Scene from where Beck’s dead pregnant body was found.
http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/Crime/2008/05/16/5585856-sun.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/2009/04/16/1day_jail_term_upheld_for_womans_killer.html
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