If I had been able to share a victim impact statement
I have been struggling with the decision to write this blog entry for three years now. I have written it over and over in my mind and somehow it never really goes away. Now that the trial is complete and the sentence given I still want to say this 'out loud' and so a blog post it shall be. Our lives were forever changed when the life of Leslie Dwyre was taken so abruptly and without cause. That day became a very distinct before and after point in our lives. Everything changed when we heard the news that our grade 8 daughter's teacher had been murdered. It made no sense then and it makes no more sense now, almost 3.5 years later. So if I had the opportunity, this is what I would say to him... That is has taken 3 years and just shy of 4 months for you to receive your sentence both sickens and angers me. Our justice system has failed to provide closure for family and friends for far too long. What you did that day in April of 2014 not only took the life of another bu