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WINNIPEG – Free Press justice reporter Mike McIntyre reported live at 2 p.m. Thursday from the trial of two men charged with first-degree murder in the death of a pregnant woman in 2007.
Nathanael Mark Plourde, 21 and Jose Manuel Toruno, 21, pleaded guilty Thursday to murder charges in in the death of Roxanne Fernando, 24, who was slain in February 2007 in what police and justice officials have described as one of the worst cases in recent memory. Her beaten body was found several days after her death buried in a snowy ditch.
Plourde pleaded guilty Thursday to first-degree murder in the case. He faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison with no parole for 25 years. Toruno pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
Sentencing will take place Friday morning at 10 a.m.
A 17-year-old co-accused pleaded guilty to first-degree last year and was given the maximum youth sentence — six years of prison and four years of probation — for what was described in court as a “callous, well-planned execution”. The Crown agreed not to try to raise him to adult court where he would face a mandatory sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years upon conviction.
Mike McIntyre is a sports reporter whose primary role is covering the Winnipeg Jets. After graduating from the Creative Communications program at Red River College in 1995, he spent two years gaining experience at the Winnipeg Sun before joining the Free Press in 1997, where he served on the crime and justice beat until 2016. Read more about Mike.
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Mike McIntyre is a sports reporter whose primary role is covering the Winnipeg Jets. After graduating from the Creative Communications program at Red River College in 1995, he spent two years gaining experience at the Winnipeg Sun before joining the Free Press in 1997, where he served on the crime and justice beat until 2016. Read more about Mike.
Every piece of reporting Mike produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press’s history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates.
Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber.
Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
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