Brendan Bernard's Death - A Case Study

Mance Lauda, Konstantinos Beliaras, Matthew Brennan and Edward Hill were unanimously found guilty of the murder of Brendan Bernard. After an 18-day trial, followed by seven days of deliberations, the jury reached its final verdict on Friday, June 10, 2016. Victim impact statements were read out to the court during the sentencing hearing. An emotional reading from Brendan's father Ronald Whitmore expressed how disgusted and enraged he felt over his son's murder. Justice John Beal rejected the defense's argument that the dismemberment of Brendan's body occurred too long after the killing to be treated as a circumstance of aggravation. He did not believe it flowed from any semblance of remorse