Jury finds Sharpe guilty of second-degree murder in double slaying

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It took a jury little more than an hour to find Seymour Sharpe guilty of killing his ex-girlfriend and her longtime male friend.

The 10-man, two-woman Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench jury took 75 minutes Thursday to find Sharpe guilty of two counts of second-degree murder.

When asked by Justice Brenda Keyser whether they had any recommendation on whether to raise Sharpe’s parole eligibility to longer than the mandatory 10-year minimum, three jurors had no recommendation while nine said Sharpe should serve 25 years before being able to apply to get out.

Sharpe, 47, will be sentenced later this year.

Natasha Jeffrey, 37, and Ronald Dabreo, 39, were slain by Sharpe in her Roblin Avenue home in Charleswood on May 17, 2013.

Court was told police found a pipe from a weightlifting set with blood on it.

Crown attorney Ari Millo told the court at the beginning of the trial that Sharpe had turned himself into police and admitted the slayings.

During the trial, Jeffrey’s co-worker testified she overheard a phone conversation during which Sharpe told the woman “I’ll take a machete and I will slice you up.”

 

But defence counsel Greg Brodsky argued Sharpe didn’t have the necessary intent to commit murder because he was provoked by Jeffrey.

kevin.rollason@freepress.mb.ca