WINNIPEG — A sentencing hearing for a Manitoba man who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the killings of his common-law partner and their two young children is set to begin Thursday.
Trevis McLeod, 52, admitted in September to the slayings after a forensic assessment found he had not suffered from a mental disorder.
Court heard the woman and two children"suffered substantial blunt force trauma to the head and body." A psychiatric assessment in the summer determined McLeod had not experienced a mental disorder that would find him not criminally responsible for the killings. McLeod didn't contest the report. McLeod said he believed he needed to kill the children to protect them from further exploitation, Queau-Guzzi said.
McLeod's older son left to go a relative's home nearby. Court heard McLeod then visited several other homes in Portage la Prairie.
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