Date set for Edward Downey sentencing
Posted Jan 28, 2019 12:21 pm.
Last Updated Jan 28, 2019 6:22 pm.
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CALGARY (660 NEWS) – A convicted double murderer will learn his fate on March 8.
Sentencing for Edward Downey was scheduled Monday.
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Downey was convicted in December of two counts of first-degree murder in the 2016 deaths of Sara Baillie and her five-year-old daughter Taliyah.
The Crown is seeking consecutive sentences meaning he could serve 50 years before parole eligibility.
Downey, 48, had testified that he didn’t kill Sara Baillie and Taliyah Marsman in July 2016.
He said he was in their home the day Baillie’s body was found because he was doing a drug deal with two other men.
The Crown’s theory was that Downey believed Baillie, 34, had influenced her best friend to break up with him and to decline to work as an escort.
The prosecution further argued that Baillie’s daughter was a witness who needed silencing.
Family members clapped as jurors returned with their verdict less than three hours after they began deliberations.
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