Joseph George Sutherland has been sentenced for two counts of second-degree murder after nearly 40 years. He pleaded guilty to the murders of Erin Gilmour and Susan Tice, who were both sexually assaulted and stabbed to death in separate incidents in Toronto. Sutherland was not arrested until advances in DNA technology linked him to the crimes. He will serve a life sentence with parole eligibility to be decided.
The sentence was handed to Joseph George Sutherland by Superior Court Justice Maureen Forestell in a downtown Toronto courtroom on Friday. Back in October, Sutherland pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder in connection with the deaths of Erin Gilmour and Susan Tice. Gilmour, the daughter of mining magnate David Gilmour, was 22 years old when she was stabbed, strangled, and sexually assaulted in her Yorkville apartment on the night of Dec. 20, 1983.
Earlier that year, Susan Tice was found stabbed to death after being sexually assaulted in her Bickford Park home, just a few kilometres away from Gilmour’s apartment. Sutherland was not arrested for nearly 40 years. The court heard he considered turning himself in at several points during that time, but opted against it. 'You ripped a hole in all our lives': Families of victims speak at sentencing for Joseph George Sutherland It wasn’t until advances in DNA technology led officers to link evidence from both crime scenes that Sutherland was arrested. He wasSutherland will appear at the Superior Court of Justice on Friday afternoon for a sentencing decision. Having pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder, he will be handed a life sentence with parole eligibility to be decided.More than $55M has been lost to investment scams in Toronto over the last 9 months. Is 'pig butchering' making it worse?Brampton, On
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