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Legal expert says Col Williams' sentence is "very harsh"

Michael Shapray weighs in on Colonel's sentencing

Tanya Fletcher

Oct 21, 2010 10:09:36 AM

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - Our legal expert says Colonel Russell Williams' sentence is one of the most severe under Canadian law. Michael Shapray tells News1130 why the judge didn't give Williams two consecutive 25-year sentences:

"We don't have 7,500 year sentences like you hear in the U.S., and because they were two different convictions, the judge obviously made them concurrent as he had already given him a maximum sentence."

He adds the judge is likely making an example out of Williams, by handing him such a harsh punishment. "Even a first-degree murder conviction is [a life sentence] with no possibility of parole for 25 years. Here, he's been given an actual 25 year sentence. That is a very, very harsh sentence by any standard in Canadian law."

Criminal defence lawyer Michael R. Shapray, B.A., LL.B., represents residents of Vancouver, Surrey, North Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Richmond, New Westminster, Port Coquitlam, Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Victoria, Nanaimo, Burnaby, Delta, and Langley, British Columbia.