Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Darryl Greer
Publication Date: July 14, 2025 - 18:31
‘Obscene brutality’: Baseball-bat killer gets life term despite constitutional ruling
July 14, 2025
The B.C. Supreme Court has sentenced a man to life in prison without parole eligibility for 25 years for beating his ex-girlfriend to death with a baseball bat as she slept beside her young daughter in 2021.
The court ruling posted Monday says Luciano Mariani’s killing of Caroline Bernard in her home in Bowser, B.C., was a crime of “obscene brutality” that was planned in advance for months.
Mariani had pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, but filed a successful constitutional challenge against a provision in Canada’s Criminal Code preventing those convicted of the crime from applying for parole for 25 years.
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