A courtroom in Perth, Ont., has truly found 2 guys responsible of first-degree homicide for homicide Hells Angels rent Greg Slewidge in close-by Beckwith Township higher than 4 years earlier.
Crown district attorneys affirmed Michael Clairoux and Lee Marazzo meant and carried out the homicide of the 39-year-old at a lawful hashish grow-op on Sept. 24, 2020
They had been every charged with first-degree murder in January 2022 and each begged innocent.
The courtroom started mulling over mid-afternoon Wednesday and returned with the judgments Thursday mid-day.
After it learn there have been splits and hugs amongst the goal’s family, and past of the aisle, amongst those who understood the implicated. Others left the courtroom room promptly.
The cost for first-degree homicide is life behind bars with none alternative of parole for 25 years. Victim affect declarations and sentencing are anticipated Thursday mid-day.
Debates over video clip
The courtroom occasion centred on high-definition surveillance footage and clashing tales over that’s seen in these video clips.
The Crown claimed all through shutting debates at present each guys shocked Slewidge, that was readied to return to be a full-patch Hells Angels participant the next week. They apparently made use of a rope to suffocate him and left his physique with a blade within the again.
Prosecutors declare the blokes had been employed by a participant of the Red Devils Motorcycle Club, a acknowledged affiliate of the Hells Angels, complying with a disagreement over car restore providers.
Those attorneys declared the attire, actions and varied different data match Clairoux and Marazzo.
Lawyers for each of the implicated puzzled concerning the integrity of the monitoring video and the popularity of their prospects, stating they could have been established.
They highlighted all through shutting debates that the hid people on the video clip can’t be linked to the implicated previous an inexpensive query. They claimed it isn’t take away the blokes acknowledged as their prospects had the very same stature, hairlines, physique markings and varied different traits.
Slewidge’s family, together with his dad Lyndon– a earlier Ontario Provincial Police police officer and well-known Ottawa Senators anthem singer— participated within the final debates.
Extra safety remained in location for the method. The courtroom room is safeguarded by cops and each individual going into is regarded.
The goal and implicated had advocates within the area, inflicting a strained atmosphere all through elements of shutting debates.
