Victim shot dead in 2000 for rumoured affair with mistress of biker gang’s president
Almost 20 years after a Halifax-area man was gunned down for having an affair with the girlfriend of a Hells Angels biker, the Supreme Court of Canada has convicted the hit man of second-degree murder.Dean Kelsie was first convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in 2003, and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for at least 25 years.
However, the Public Prosecution Service in Nova Scotia sought an appeal of that ruling before the Supreme Court of Canada, hoping to have both of the original convictions reinstated.The top court upheld Kelsie’s conspiracy conviction, but it reduced the first-degree murder conviction to the lesser charge of second-degree murder.The Nova Scotia Supreme Court must now sentence him on the new charge, which will involve adjusting his parole eligibility period to 25 years or less.
“Mr. Simmons, in the early 1990s, had been closely affiliated with the Halifax Hells Angels and hoped to become a member,” the judge said in his decision. As a result, Simmons and his wife left Halifax and spent several years in New Brunswick, returning at the end of 1998, court heard.Story continues below advertisement
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