‘feral Butchery’: Scottish Judge Sentences Man To Life For Killing Alberta Girlfriend - Beritaja

A Scottish judge has sentenced a man to life successful situation for the 2024 execution of his Alberta woman successful the distant Shetland Islands.

Judge Paul Arthurson says 24-year-old Claire Leveque died a squalid and unimaginable decease successful an section of frenzied “feral butchery.”

A assemblage heard Aren Pearson stabbed the female from Westlock, northbound of Edmonton, astatine slightest 26 times successful a basking tub and held her caput nether the water.

When constabulary responded, officers recovered 41-year-old Pearson successful the tub pinch the woman’s body.

The judge says the man sought to belittle his girlfriend’s characteristic and made respective abusive and derogatory comments about her.

Scotland Police Insp. Richard Baird says successful a connection that Pearson was “cruel and selfish” and hopes the verdict brings closure to Leveque’s family.