沉冤40年，逃亡40年最後都落網
Joseph George Sutherland convicted of 2nd-degree murder for deaths of Susan Tice and Erin Gilmour
An Ontario man, convicted in the killings of two women in Toronto that took place nearly four decades ago, was sentenced on Friday to life in prison with no chance of parole for 21 years.
Joseph George Sutherland, 62, of Moosonee, Ont., was sentenced in Ontario Superior Court in Toronto. He pleaded guilty in October 2023 to two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of Susan Tice and Erin Gilmour in 1983.
Tice, 45, and Gilmour, 22, were both sexually assaulted and stabbed to death in their beds in August and December 1983. They lived just kilometres apart in the city core — Tice in the Bickford Park neighbourhood and Gilmour in a Yorkville apartment. The two women didn't know each other.
Sutherland was arrested by provincial police in his home town in November 2022. His period of parole ineligibility begins at the time of his arrest. He is also required to submit a DNA sample to the authorities and cannot possess weapons.
Justice Maureen Forestell told the court that mitigating factors in the sentencing include the fact that Sutherland is a first-time offender, he pleaded guilty to the crimes, he has apologized for his actions and he has lived a "pro-social" life in the time since the murders.
But because of the "extreme gravity of these offences," the sentence and period of parole ineligibility cannot be lower, she said.
"The two murders that Mr. Sutherland committed were profoundly serious," she said.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/joseph-sutherland-life-in-prison-1.7152817
