Multiple murder convictions that have led to consecutive sentencing for killers
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — Derek Saretzky was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with no chance of parole for 75 years for killing a father, daughter and senior in 2015. Federal legislation allows a judge to order a multiple murderer to serve more than the usual 25 years before being eligible to ask for parole.
Here are some other cases where the provision has been used:
February 2017: Douglas Garland is sentenced to life in prison without parole for 75 years for killing Alvin and Kathy Liknes and their five-year-old grandson Nathan O’Brien. Court heard how Garland attacked the three victims in their home, then took them to his farm near Calgary, where he killed and dismembered them, burning their remains. Garland held a petty grudge against Alvin Liknes over a business deal they had.
June 2016: A homeless man who brutally beat three other transient men to death in separate attacks is sent to prison for life with no chance of parole for 75 years. John Ostamas pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree murder for the April 2015 killings that prompted police to warn Winnipeg’s homeless population to be careful.