Peter Whitmore Receives Life Sentence For Sexual Assaults
Posted July 23, 2007 12:00 pm.
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Peter Whitmore is headed to prison.
After already being convicted for several sexual offences, Whitmore pleaded guilty Monday to abducting and sexually assaulting a Saskatchewan boy and a Manitoba teenager.
The verdict reached in a Regina courtroom is that the plea will send Whitmore to prison for life without the possibility of parole for seven years. In his sentencing, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Ian McLellan called Whitmore’s acts “repulsive and sickening.”
The plea was part of a deal offered by the Crown in which it would not pursue a dangerous offender designation for Whitmore despite his record. Had they done so, it would have meant an indefinite jail sentence without the possibility of parole for seven years.
Crown lawyer Anthony Gerein told the judge — “It ends here. It ends now, with life in prison. “He destroyed so much that can never be restored.”
Gerein also read out some highly-effective victim impact statements, including one from the 14-year-old Manitoba youth, who concluded his by saying, “I wish none of this ever happened. Then I would still be me.”
The only response from the defence was when Whitmore’s lawyer, Merv Shaw, read an apology from his client to the courtroom.
