Killer who stabbed victim 'at least 52 times' dies in B.C. prison
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A 72-year-old inmate serving a life sentence for a brutal murder that happened in Chilliwack in 2016 has died, according to the Correctional Service of Canada.
A 72-year-old inmate serving a life sentence for a brutal murder that happened in Chilliwack in 2016 has died, according to the Correctional Service of Canada.
Gerald Leslie Dolman had been serving his indeterminate sentence since Dec. 1, 2017, the CSC said in a news release Thursday, describing him as an inmate at the Pacific Institution's Regional Treatment Centre in Abbotsford.
The service did not elaborate on the cause of Dolman's death or the circumstances of his crime, but CTV News covered the murder when it occurred, and a sentencing decision available online sheds additional light on what happened.
The killing happened on the afternoon of May 3, 2016. Mounties were called to a parking lot on Yale Road near Spadina Avenue in downtown Chilliwack around 3 p.m. for reports of a stabbing that had followed a crash between two vehicles.
The 49-year-old victim, who police did not name at the time, died at the scene.
Police arrested one man – Dolman – at the scene, and he was charged with second-degree murder the following day.
The sentencing decision identifies the deceased as Robert Thomas Splitt, a father and grandfather who was the boyfriend of Rebecca Burns, a sex-trade worker who was also in a sexual relationship with Dolman, then aged 63.
