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Cape Breton Man Convicted Of Thrill Killing Must Serve 15 Years Before Parole

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 13 Apr, 2016 01:35 PM

SYDNEY, N.S. — A Cape Breton man convicted in the second-degree murder of a 19-year-old woman has been sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 15 years.

Thomas Ted Barrett appeared for a sentencing hearing today before Judge Robin Gogan in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Sydney, N.S.

Crown attorney Katherine Pentz says the judge accepted a joint recommendation by the Crown and Barrett's lawyer.

The 41-year-old Barrett was found guilty last month of strangling Brett McKinnon, whose remains were found in 2008 near a Glace Bay hiking trail, two years after she went missing.

The Crown's case relied partly on Sheryl Flynn's videotaped statement to police in 2012 of what Barrett told her about the killing during a conversation in 2009.

Flynn's evidence was given before her overdose death in October 2013.

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