As Justice David Crossin was thanking jury members for their work, the killer flipped his middle finger at the judge
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Still, the sisters said they are relieved and they believe their father would be glad to know the men who killed him will be kept away from the public with mandatory sentences of life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.Article content The trial began Nov. 14 with both men pleading not guilty to first-degree murder, but two weeks later, Armitage entered a guilty plea without the jury present.
During the trial, Crown attorney Chandra Fisher said Armitage and Busch had planned their attack on Payne in order to get his banking information. Fisher said Payne was larger than both of the men and two of them would have been needed to carry out the crime.In closing statements to the jury, defence lawyer Ryan Drury said the case against his client was “weak” and “speculative.”
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