Open in full screen mode Ian Bush, during his trial for the murders of ex-judge Alban Garon, his wife Raymonde and their friend Marie-Claire Beniskos. (Archive photo) Radio-Canada Voice synthesis , based on artificial intelligence, allows you to generate a spoken text from a written text. Seven years after being convicted of a triple murder, one of Ottawa's most notorious killers, Ian Bush, is appealing his his conviction. He calls for new trials. His lawyers presented their arguments before a panel of judges at the Ontario Court of Appeal in Toronto. Earlier this month, his lawyers challenged the convictions for two days and requested new trials for the triple murder and the attempted murder. In court filings, a lawyer for Ian Bush said judges made errors during his client's trials, including allowing evidence suggesting the defendant was planning further murders, as well as in the way in which the juror was instructed. Howard L. Krongold argued that the triple murder conviction should be appealed for two reasons . He argued that there was a risk of prejudice to the jury by allowing evidence to suggest that Mr. Bush had a murder bag prepared to commit similar crimes. Loading in cours ELSEWHERE ON INFO: Horne Foundry: Quebec dismisses civil servants with “conflict of interest” Loading in progress ELSE ON INFO: Horne Foundry: Quebec dismisses civil servants with “conflict of interest” His lawyer also advanced that trial judge Colin McKinnon misdirected the jury in his instructions to find first-degree murder in each of the 2017 deaths. Then, in the attempted murder case, Howard L. Krongold added that there was an error in the way evidence similar to a chilling and bloody triple murder -cold were presented.
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From left to right: the three victims by Ian Bush: Raymonde Garon, Alban Garon and Marie-Claire Beniskos. (Archive photo)
In response to this, Crown prosecutors assured in court documents that no legal errors had been made during the these two trials, that the jury had been properly instructed and that the evidence had been legally obtained and used.
The Prosecutors say Ian Bush's convictions were entirely justified due to the seriousness of the crimes and Mr. Bush's extremely high degree of moral culpability.
In the triple murder trial, the prosecution recalled that it took the jury less than two hours to reach a unanimous verdict.
This conclusion was overwhelmingly established by the fact that three victims were murdered while locked up, a basis for liability that remains undisputed in this appeal.
The Ontario Court of Appeal could take a few months to decide whether whether the appeal will be accepted or rejected.
Ian Bush, then aged 59 years old, during his trial in 2017. (Archive photo)
Ian Bush was convicted in May 2017 of crimes still memorable for many Ottawa residents because of their brutality and its targets, former tax judge Alban Garon, his wife, Raymonde, and their friend Marie-Claire Beniskos. The trio was killed on June 30, 2007.
These murders were described as brutal and gratuitous during which his victims were tied up and suffocated with plastic bags.
A few months later, a second trial for attempted murder against a veteran ended with another guilty verdict.
It took a long time for the police to get their hands on Ian Bush. This happened six years after the incident when he entered the veteran's apartment in December 2014 and placed a plastic bag over his head.
< p class="StyledBodyHtmlParagraph-sc-48221190-4 hnvfyV">The victim, Ernest Côté, 101 years old, survived. He ultimately died in February 2015 of natural causes. Described as a hero and an old-school gentleman at his funeral, Mr. Côté participated in planning the Normandy landings during the Second World War.
Veteran Ernest Côté died in February 2015, of natural causes, a few months after being the victim of an assassination attempt. (File photo)
Police found evidence of ties and plastic bags used in both crimes during his investigation of Ian Bush.
A jury's verdict in his trial for the triple murder carried three automatic life sentences to be served concurrently. The attempted murder of Mr. Côté earned him another life sentence, with no possibility of parole for 25 years.
With information from David Fraser, from CBC News< /em>