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John Mcrae left Courtroom No. 33 on Wednesday saying the system had failed him.
The 73-year-old Orléans great-grandfather had just been condemned to life in prison for stabbing his sleeping son to death.
He was convicted of second-degree murder last week and the trial resumed for sentencing on Wednesday. Because murder carries an automatic life sentence, the only thing to be decided was parole eligibility, which was set at 12 years.
Mcrae, in ailing health, slit his son’s throat as he slept off a day of drinking on the living room couch on July 7, 2015. He was fed up with his angry, always-drunk son and figured he’d be better off dead. Even told the neighbour his son deserved to die.
He pleaded not guilty and claimed that he killed in self-defence after years of elder abuse at the hands of his son Michael, 51.
Mcrae testified in his own defence and said he feared his son so much that he slept with a baseball bat.
But the jury didn’t buy his story and found him guilty.
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The 73-year-old Orléans great-grandfather had just been condemned to life in prison for stabbing his sleeping son to death.
He was convicted of second-degree murder last week and the trial resumed for sentencing on Wednesday. Because murder carries an automatic life sentence, the only thing to be decided was parole eligibility, which was set at 12 years.
Mcrae, in ailing health, slit his son’s throat as he slept off a day of drinking on the living room couch on July 7, 2015. He was fed up with his angry, always-drunk son and figured he’d be better off dead. Even told the neighbour his son deserved to die.
He pleaded not guilty and claimed that he killed in self-defence after years of elder abuse at the hands of his son Michael, 51.
Mcrae testified in his own defence and said he feared his son so much that he slept with a baseball bat.
But the jury didn’t buy his story and found him guilty.
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