An uncle and nephew are going to jail for murdering 64-year-old Edward Geddes in 2011 after which burying his physique on a farm close to Baldwinton, Sask., about 200 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon.
Robert Pich, 61, pleaded responsible to second-degree homicide. His uncle, 73-year-old John Gregoire, pleaded responsible to burying the sufferer’s physique on his farm.
Justice Richard Danyliuk accepted a joint sentencing submission from prosecutor Cory Bliss and defence legal professionals Brian Pfefferle and Jonathan Bodvarson.
Pich was sentenced to life in jail with no probability of parole for 15 years. With credit score for time on remand, he can apply for parole in 12 years. Gregoire, who was out on bail, was sentenced to 5 years.
In a sufferer assertion learn in courtroom, Geddes’s younger sister stated her brother had issues in his life, “but he was never a mean man.”
Danyliuk additionally famous that, though the sufferer might had private points, “his life was not yours to take.”
Police consider they’ve discovered the physique of Edward Geddes, who had been lacking since Feb. 2011. (Saskatchewan Association of Chiefs of Police)
Bliss learn an agreed assertion of info into the document.
In late 2010, Gregoire employed Geddes, 64, as a mechanic and supervisor at a enterprise he owned in Neilburg, Sask., Coupar stated.
Gregoire got here to suspect Geddes was stealing from him. On April 11, 2011, Gregoire referred to as Pich and instructed him to get Geddes to the farm.
Pich instructed Geddes he wanted assist getting a filter off a front-end loader and Geddes got here.
“Mr. Pich clubbed Mr. Geddes in the head with a four-by-four piece of wood when Mr. Geddes was changing the filter,” Bliss stated.
Pich then tied up Geddes with zip ties and waited for Gregoire. While he waited, he drank alcohol and questioned Geddes, capturing a pistol close to him. After Gregoire arrived, they moved Geddes to an empty home and continued questioning him and capturing the pistol.
At some level afterward, Gregoire instructed Pich to eliminate Geddes and take him to Saskatoon or Battleford. Pich put Geddes, who was nonetheless alive, within the trunk of a automobile.
“Mr. Pich was driving to Saskatoon when due to his intoxication and the freezing rain, he lost control of the vehicle and hit the ditch on Highway 40 outside Battleford, Saskatchewan,” Coupar stated.
Police do not know when precisely Geddes died. Police impounded the automobile after a passersby reported the crash at 12:34 a.m. on April 12, 2011, however they did not search the trunk.
From jail, Pich referred to as Gregoire to get the automobile. Even although Gregoire picked up the automobile that very same day, he did not look within the trunk till a few week later, when the foul odour from the trunk was unmistakable.
Geddes was useless. That evening, Gregoire dug a gap in a brush pile on his property within the RM of Hillside, close to Baldwinton, Sask., about 200 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon. Gregoire used a front-end loader to hold Geddes’s stays to the outlet, the place he piled brush and useless cows over high of Geddes’s physique.
Danyliuk famous that RCMP investigated and chased down leads for greater than a decade. The break within the case got here when undercover officers befriended Pich and he made admissions that led to the restoration of the physique.
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