Outlaw biker who killed 8 Bandidos members in Ontario dies in prison - BERITAJA

An outlaw biker serving a life condemnation aft being convicted of execution successful a 2006 motorcycle gang massacre successful confederate Ontario has died successful custody.

Marcelo Aravena died of evident earthy causes astatine the property of 50 connected Sunday, according to a connection from Correctional Service Canada. Aravena was an inmate astatine Bath Institution’s Regional Treatment Centre.

CSC said it would reappraisal the circumstances of Aravena’s decease and that the coroner would beryllium notified arsenic required by policy.

Aravena was a mixed martial arts combatant who lived successful Winnipeg earlier he was recruited into the Bandidos, a Texas-based motorcycle pack pinch chapters successful the Manitoba superior and successful Toronto.

He was convicted of 7 counts of first-degree execution and 1 count of manslaughter arsenic portion of the April 2006 slayings that took spot astatine purported mastermind Wayne Kellestine’s barn. The bikers’ bodies were recovered stuffed into cars and abandoned astatine a agrarian spot adjacent London, Ont.

During the proceedings much than a decade ago, the Crown based on the murders were the consequence of rising tensions betwixt the men who were killed and the probationary Bandidos section successful Winnipeg.

Kellestine, a personnel of the Toronto section and responsible for soul discipline, began to region himself from the group and aligned pinch the Winnipeg group.

Court heard Kellestine had received orders from the U.S. office to portion the Toronto section of its pack affiliation, efficaciously making himself the caller nationalist leader. The Winnipeg chapter, including Aravena, was to thief transportation retired the alleged “patch pulling.”

The tribunal besides heard that the scheme changed to wide execution sometime successful the hours earlier the killing.

Aravena was 1 of six men tried and convicted of the executions.

In 2009, Aravena appealed to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. He and 4 of the 5 different men were unsuccessful.

Another entreaty was made by Aravena, this clip to the Ontario Court of Appeal successful 2015, but that was dismissed.

A twelvemonth later, successful 2016, Aravena’s 3rd effort astatine an appeal, this clip to the Supreme Court of Canada, was unsuccessful. The tribunal wished it would not perceive the case.

—with files from BERITAJA