Seven-year sentences given to two women in Megan Gallagher murder case

Two women were handed down seven-year sentences Thursday successful the lawsuit of Megan Gallagher.

Gallagher, a 30-year-old Métis women, was past seen live successful 2020, earlier her assemblage was recovered successful September 2022 successful the South Saskatchewan River.

Thirty-one-year-old Cheyann Peeteetuce and 26-year-old Summy-Sky Henry were primitively connected proceedings for first-degree execution but pleaded blameworthy to manslaughter past month.

The 2 volition service clip successful a national institution.

The condemnation includes clip the women person already served. Peeteetuce has astir six years near to serve, portion Henry has conscionable implicit 5 years.

After the sentencing Thursday, Gallagher’s household was visibly upset arsenic the verdict arrived.

“The radical who person perpetrated this, I deliberation they are laughing astatine the justness system,” Brian Gallagher, Megan’s begetter said. “We don’t cognize each the details, but I deliberation determination has been a loophole oregon thing recovered somewhere. And I’m truly acrophobic astir the different cases moving forward.”

Brian has go an advocator for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls implicit the past 2 years. He said the household is not good with the determination Thursday.

“The justness did person the powerfulness to lengthen the sentence, and she (the judge) went done her process successful doing what she could, but she inactive had the powerfulness to marque immoderate changes, (and) she didn’t,” Brian said.

In full determination were 9 radical arrested successful the Gallagher investigation. Four are facing execution charges.

Robert Thomas — the astir caller condemnation successful transportation to Gallagher — was sentenced to beingness successful situation with nary accidental of parole for 18 years aft pleading blameworthy to second-degree murder.

Justice Richard Danyliuk had ruled an interim work prohibition connected Peeteetuce and Henry’s proceedings owed to pending trials for 2 much accused successful transportation to the case.