![]() ![]() "How did I get stuck with this cowardly, selfish monster," said Alan Blackburn, Paula's brother-in-law, who was the one to identify Gallant's body. Loved ones speakĪfter the agreed statement of facts was presented to the court, 10 victim impact statements were read. ![]() He walked home, ran some errands and reported his wife missing that night. MacRae drove the car to the parking lot outside Beechville-Lakeside-Timberlea Elementary School, where Gallant was a Grade 3 teacher. MacRae placed her body in the trunk of her car and covered her with a grey blanket taken from an emergency kit in the trunk. He went back inside the home, put a windbreaker and shoes on Gallant's body and slid her out a basement window adjacent to the driveway. ((CBC))According to the agreed statement of facts, MacRae covered Gallant's body with a sheet, left her in the basement and went upstairs to feed their daughter, who was just shy of her first birthday.Īfter feeding his daughter, MacRae left her in the highchair and went outside of their home on Silver Maple Drive in Timberlea to check for possible witnesses or neighbours. Paula Gallant, 36, was found dead in the trunk of her car. Then he wrapped her head and face in Saran Wrap for 20 minutes to make sure she was dead. She got up, faced him and said, "What are you doing? Stop." MacRae grabbed a piece of two-by-four wood and struck his wife on the back of her head. 27, 2005, MacRae and Gallant were in their basement arguing about a debt on MacRae's VISA card for online gambling, according to an agreed statement of facts. The details of Gallant's killing were read out in court on Wednesday - five years after the Grade 3 teacher's body was found in the trunk of her car. "The reality is he is a very dangerous person," Coady told the court. Justice Kevin Coady ruled that he would be eligible for parole in 15 years. Jason Wayne MacRae, 37, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax on Wednesday. A Nova Scotia man has admitted he strangled his wife, elementary teacher Paula Gallant, in an argument over a $700 gambling debt. ![]()
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