Conspiracy to commit murder
R. v. G.L.
A publication ban applies. The offender is not named.
Sentence and the Crown's position
Crown asked79 months in custody1
Judge imposedSix and a half years in custody (44 days of pre-sentence custody taken into account, not subtracted)1
What the law allows
MaximumLife imprisonment
Crown asked79 months in custody
Judge imposed79 months in custody
Defence asked79 months in custody
The offender pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit murder for plots, organized with a co-accused, to have three people killed in Vancouver and Surrey. Crown and defence jointly proposed six-and-a-half years' imprisonment. Justice Murray accepted the joint submission as at the lower end of the range but within it, and imposed six-and-a-half years on top of 44 days of pre-sentence custody already taken into account.
In the judge's words
1I accept from the cases put before me that there is a wide range for sentencing for conspiracy to commit murder. While in my view the proposed sentence is at the lower end of the applicable range, I am satisfied that it is in the range.
The record
- Convicted of
- Conspiracy to commit murder (CC 465(1)(a), 2 counts)
- Prior convictions
- 0 prior convictions1
- At the time of the offence
- Not stated1
- Defence asked for
- 79 months in custody1
- Appeal
- Not yet checked
- Counsel
- Crown: J. Pellerin, M. Barrenger
Defence: A. Allen-Valleau
Sources
- R. v. G.L., 2025 BCSC 2343 Court decision, CanLII, September 12, 2025
[2] Crown and defence jointly propose a sentence of six-and-a-half years imprisonment.
[2] Crown and defence jointly propose a sentence of six-and-a-half years imprisonment.
[18] The fact that he has no criminal record would normally be a mitigating factor
[21] I accept from the cases put before me that there is a wide range for sentencing for conspiracy to commit murder. While in my view the proposed sentence is at the lower end of the applicable range, I am satisfied that it is in the range.
[28] I sentence you to six-and-a-half years. That is on top of the dead time of 44 days. In accepting this sentence proposal, I take the dead time into account but it is not to be subtracted, and of course there is no credit for the time that you have spent in custody since your arrest in June of this year.
- Criminal Code, s. 465 Record, Justice Laws Website
- R. v. G.L., 2025 BCSC 2343 Court decision, Courts of British Columbia