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A ruling announced by Superior Court Justice, Robert Clark, sentenced former pastor found guilty of manslaughter, Philip Grandine, for 15 years for drowning his pregnant wife to death to 15 years in prison. According to the announcement on Friday, Grandine will be credited for his time served during the trial and so he will now be serving 14 years and eight months more for murdering his five months pregnant 29-year-old wife, Karissa.
Justice Clark mentioned in his remarks that former pastor’s actions reached a “depth of depravity that beggars the imagination of any right thinking person.” A retirement home nurse, Grandine, was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury after a two-week trial last year. Grandine faced charges of first-degree murder, obtaining prescription sedatives, drugging and drowning his wife in a bathtub in their Scarborough home on the night of Oct. 17, 2011. Furthermore, it was revealed during trial that Grandine once drugged his wife before the killing her on Oct 13, 2011.
According to the judgment, Grandine was found guilty of first-degree murder of his wife because it was established that he deliberately planned on it as confirmed by his searches for terms like “autopsy” and whether 100mg of Lorazepam would be fatal. Clark stressed that he thinks Grandine’s crime are more on the lines of first-degree murder rather than the jury’s verdict of manslaughter. Both the defence and the Crown had sought completely different and very extreme sentences as Crown sought 15 to 18 years and the defence six months to two years.
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