Serial killer Dellen Millard is appealing his first-degree murder conviction and sentence for the death of his father, arguing the outcome of his case was unreasonable.<\/p>\n
Millard was found guilty in September of murdering his dad, Wayne Millard, whose death in 2012 was initially ruled a suicide.<\/p>\n
In December, Justice Maureen Forestell sentenced the 33-year-old to his third consecutive life sentence, which means he\u00a0will serve 75 years in prison before being able to apply for parole.<\/p>\n
Two days after being sentenced, Millard filed a notice of appeal disputing Forestell’s conclusions.<\/p>\n
“The verdict is unreasonable,” Millard wrote in the document dated Dec. 20. “The sentence is unconstitutional.”<\/p>\n
Millard, who had pleaded not guilty to the murder of his father, a wealthy aviation executive, is also appealing his first-degree murder convictions and sentences for the deaths of Hamilton’s Tim Bosma, a complete stranger, and Toronto’s Laura Babcock, his one-time lover.<\/p>\n
He committed those two murders with his former friend, Mark Smich, who is also appealing the verdicts in those cases.<\/p>\n
Forestell, who presided over the Wayne Millard case without a jury, found that Dellen Millard shot his 71-year-old father through the left eye as he slept on Nov. 29, 2012.<\/p>\n
She found that Millard took steps to set up a false alibi by leaving his car, a cellphone and his credit card at Smich’s house while he took a taxi to his father’s place in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n
Forestell said at sentencing last month that there was faint hope for Millard’s rehabilitation.<\/p>\n
“Dellen Millard has repeatedly committed the most serious offence known to our law,” she said.<\/p>\n
“He has done so with considerable planning and premeditation. In the murder of his father, he took advantage of the vulnerability of his father and betrayed his father’s trust in him.”<\/p>\n
Millard’s lawyer\u00a0argued the consecutive sentence without parole eligibility was unduly long and harsh but the judge disagreed.<\/p>\n
“It is necessary to impose a further penalty in order to express society’s condemnation of each of the murders that he has committed and to acknowledge the harm done to each of the victims,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Dellen Millard is capable of gaining the trust of friends, relatives and strangers. Mr. Millard has, however, used his ability to gain such trust as a vehicle for planned and deliberate killings.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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