Family of IPV victim share their trauma at sentencing hearing for Windsor man [Video]

The family of an Intimate Partner Violence victim are sharing their trauma at sentencing hearing for Windsor man.

Wellington Holland, now 64, was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison for killing his common-law partner Janice Madison, 67, on Nov. 14, 2023.

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“I felt my mom thought she was in a safe and loving relationship. She hoped and she prayed and always believed in her relationship, that things would get better,” Madison’s daughter Brittany-Jean Madison-Struck said during her victim impact statement.

“I now have a sense of guilt for not trying hard enough to get her away from a person I feel is a monster.”

At the time of her murder, Holland was under a court-ordered ban on possessing any weapons.

He also had eight convictions for offences against Madison including assault.

Madison, court learned, was stabbed in the ear and chest and she had defensive wounds to her hands.

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