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Judge rules Garland to spend 75 years in prison before parole

Feb 17, 2017 | 1:42 PM

CALGARY – A judge has ruled that triple murderer Douglas Garland will spend the rest of his life in prison.

Justice David Gates imposed a sentence on the 57-year-old that would prevent his seeking parole for 75 years.

Gates says Garland carried out the murders with “meticulous planning and precision.”

Garland said “no” when asked if he had anything to say in court.

A jury convicted Garland of three counts of first-degree murder for the 2014 deaths of Alvin and Kathy Liknes and their five-year-old grandson Nathan O’Brien.

Garland assaulted the trio in a Calgary home on June 30, 2014, transported them to his family farm north of the city, murdered and dismembered them and then burned their bodies to ash.