A Montrealer who killed and dismembered a music partner before throwing the body in the trash has finally been convicted of first degree murder at the end of his second trial.
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“Guilty,” launched the jury at the trial of Raymond Henry Muller, Friday, at the Montreal courthouse.
With this word heavy with consequences, the jury thus sealed the fate of the 55-year-old musician, who will receive life imprisonment, without the possibility of release for 25 years, for the murder of his friend, Cédric Gagnon, in July 2018.
According to Crown evidence, Muller killed his music partner with a guitar. Except that followingwards, he dismembered the corpse, to then scatter the body parts in different trash cans.
The case had been considered a disappearance, until Muller attempted suicide by leaving a note confessing to the crime.
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Following his arrest, he made further confessions to the police, who never found the body.
At the first trial, however, Muller vowed never to kill his friend, claiming that his “confession” was a kind of plan he planned to use to find the deceased.
A first jury had failed to agree on a verdict, but the second was convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that Muller was indeed guilty.
He will return to court next week to formalize his sentence.