B.C. man sentenced for Indigenous woman’s murder; court rejects ‘rough sex’ defence [Video]

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A B.C. man was found guilty and sentenced for murder after failing to convince a judge that the woman he killed and dismembered consented to the strangulation that caused her death.

The victim, Carmelita Abraham, 33, a member of the Takla First Nation, was last seen alive in late-December of 2021. The RCMP later announced that the case had evolved from a missing persons investigation into a homicide probe.

Joseph Bernhart Simpson, 51, was charged with murder and indignity to human remains on Jan. 15, 2022. Mounties described the circumstances of the case as “a tragic incident that occurred between Joseph Simpson and Carmelita Abraham, who were known to one another.”

The judge’s decision in the casewas published on Oct. 1. The next day, according to the B.C. Prosecution Service, Simpson was handed a life sentence with no possibility of parole for 14 and a half years for second-degree murder and four years for interfering …