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Court of Queen’s Bench Justice David Gates agreed with Crown prosecutor Shane Parker the convicted killer’s actions warranted consecutive periods of parole ineligibility.

"It is difficult to conceive a more cunning, cruel and horrific set of circumstances of assault, abduction, torture and murder," Gates said, after asking Garland if he wished to speak and being told he did not.

"Mr. Garland, you have done a terrible thing, the horror and the terror that you visited upon on these three innocent people extends almost beyond the boundaries of ordinary human comprehension.

"The circumstances defy description."

Parker had a more succinct description of Garland’s crime.

"It’s evil," he said.

"These acts, the Crown would submit, display a character of evil," Parker said, in seeking the harshest sentence available for Garland under Canadian law

"Each victim was apparently murdered for a slightly different purpose," the prosecutor said.

"This was ... a brutal crime of stark horror," he said.

"You not only have death, you have torture, inhuman behaviour."

http://www.calgarysun.com/2017/02/17...ore-sentencing