Kamloops judge deems ‘macabre’ killer dangerous offender and orders him jailed indefinitely – Kamloops News

A man who murdered his friend and then cut her body into seven pieces has been labeled a dangerous offender and must be locked up indefinitely after a judge ruled it is the only way to ensure he does not live another life robs.

Nathaniel Jessup, 36, was sentenced Tuesday after a conviction two years ago in one sense it is manslaughter and indignity to human remains – a disturbing case described by the judge as “macabre” and “out of line”.

Jessup was homeless in the summer of 2015 when he attacked his girlfriend, Katherine McAdam. He killed her on August 15, 2015, in the basement suite she was renting on Cedar Street in Creston.

McAdam’s dismembered remains were discovered on a property outside Creston twelve days after her death. Jessup decapitated McAdam and removed all her limbs.

After his conviction, prosecutors requested that Jessup be classified as a dangerous offender – a label reserved for Canada’s most serious and violent criminals. Dangerous offenders are locked up indefinitely unless a judge is satisfied that a lesser sentence would adequately protect the public.

In deciding Jessup’s fate, BC Supreme Court Justice Dennis Hori took into account his lengthy criminal record, which includes a number of violent crimes — including five convictions for assaulting corrections staff and an incident in which he strangled a five-year-old boy, causing he almost died. .

Hori determined that Jessup’s violent behavior was “unmanageable” – a finding necessary to label him as a dangerous offender.

“It is my opinion that Mr. Jessup will not be able to overcome his violent behavior,” he said. “Accordingly, I find that Mr. Jessup’s violent behavior is persistent and I find that Mr. Jessup is a dangerous offender.”

Crown prosecutor Laura Drake demanded an indefinite sentence while attorney John Gustafson suggested between six and twelve years of new age.

Hori sided with the Crown, saying Jessup should be kept behind bars to ensure no one else is killed or seriously injured by his actions.

“I am not convinced that a sentence less than indefinite detention in prison would adequately protect the public from the commission of murder or a serious crime against Mr Jessup,” he said.

The indefinite sentence is related to the manslaughter charge. Hori sentenced Jessup to a concurrent three-year prison sentence for outrage over McAdam’s remains.

Jessup was also given a lifetime firearms ban and ordered to submit a sample of his DNA to a national criminal database.

That was him acquitted after a previous murder case in Kamloops in 2019. Jessup was charged with second-degree murder in the 2014 death of Dylan Levi Judd, his former cellmate at the Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre.

In that case, a judge ruled that there was not enough evidence to prove that Judd did not commit suicide – as the police initially thought.