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CONVICTION STANDS

First-degree murder conviction upheld in 2013 Calgary swarming death

Jun 2, 2020 | 8:58 AM

CALGARY- Alberta’s top court has upheld a first-degree murder conviction for a Calgary man found guilty in the swarming death of a young man outside a Calgary nightclub.

Nathan Gervais was originally scheduled to stand trial in 2016, along with four other men, in the death of 18-year-old Lukas Strasser-Hird.

Hird was swarmed, beaten then stabbed outside of the Vinyl nightclub in 2013.

Gervais fled to Vietnam before the trial.

Two others were convicted of second-degree murder, while a third was found guilty of manslaughter.

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The fourth was acquitted.

Gervais was arrested in Vietnam in 2018 and returned to Calgary to face trial.

A judge convicted him of first-degree murder, finding that Gervais had committed the crime of forcible confinement during the killing.

Gervais argued that he should have been convicted of second-degree murder, but the Appeal court disagreed.

(The Canadian Press)

by Canadian Press

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