Regina 'serial murderer' sentenced to life without parole for 25 years in brutal killing
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A judge has served convicted killer Dillon Whitehawk the maximum sentence for second-degree murder for his role in Keesha Bitternose’s brutal death.
A judge has served convicted killer Dillon Whitehawk the maximum sentence for second-degree murder for his role in Keesha Bitternose’s brutal death.
Whitehawk, 28, was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.
Justice Janet McMurtry made the ruling on Tuesday at the Court of King’s Bench in Regina.
In December 2022, Whitehawk was convicted of second-degree murder in Bitternose’s death. Crown prosecutors were seeking a first-degree murder conviction.
Bitternose, 29, was murdered in a North Central neighbourhood home on Jan. 2, 2020. Police found her body inside the house on Jan. 5. She had more than 100 wounds on her body and a forensics pathologist could not pinpoint the exact injury that caused her death.
Justice McMurtry said “a night of drinking and drug use” ended in a violent death, calling it a “ferocious, impulsive attack on Keesha Bitternose.”
“I can come to no conclusion other than Mr. Whitehawk is a dangerous man and deserves to be in the category of the worst offenders,” McMurtry said.
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