A jury found Trent Butt guilty of first-degree murder in March and the conviction carries an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years
A Newfoundland man who killed his five-year-old daughter in what the Crown said was a calculated plan to inflict suffering on his estranged wife will be sentenced today.The conviction carries an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years.A provincial Supreme Court justice is expected to deliver the details of Butt’s sentence on Tuesday morning.
The emotionally charged trial captured the province’s attention, as disturbing evidence from the case was laid out for jurors, relatives and other onlookers. Butt testified at trial that he did not remember killing Quinn, saying he found himself over her body and concluded he must have suffocated her.
The Crown had argued that Butt, 40, killed Quinn in 2016 to inflict suffering on his estranged wife, Andrea Gosse. Butt had left a suicide note saying he had killed Quinn and himself to keep her apart from her mother.The girl’s body was found in the master bedroom along with her father by emergency crews.
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