Supreme Court will not hear Travis Vader’s appeal

OTTAWA- The case of an Alberta man convicted of killing two Edmonton-area seniors will not be argued before Canada’s highest court.

The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from Travis Vader, who was given a life sentence for the July 2010 deaths of Lyle and Marie McCann.

Vader’s lawyers had argued that the case was dragged through the courts, and that the trial judge made errors and showed bias when he substituted the lesser offence of manslaughter for two second-degree murder verdicts.

The son of Lyle and Marie McCann says he’s thrilled that the Supreme Court court has rejected the appeal.