Alberta's top court dismisses Crown appeal of sentence for man who killed Calgary chef

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 01, 2025 4:07 PM EDT | Last Updated: 34 minutes ago

The Alberta Court of Appeal has rejected a petition to reappraisal the condemnation fixed to a antheral convicted successful the decease of a well-known Calgary chef.

Anthony Dodgson was recovered blameworthy successful 2023 by a assemblage of second-degree execution aft fatally stabbing Christophe Herblin portion his accomplice, Tommie Holloway, was convicted of manslaughter.

Court heard Dodgson and Holloway broke into the edifice with plans to get done a partition into an adjacent cannabis shop. They fled erstwhile a car drove by and returned aboriginal to proceed their robbery effort but became frustrated erstwhile Herblin showed up.

Holloway smashed Herblin's car windows successful bid to lure him into the parking lot. Dodgson attacked him and stabbed him 9 times.

Herblin was a longtime enforcement sous cook astatine the Glencoe Golf and Country Club, and his caller edifice was weeks distant from opening.

He stumbled to a adjacent state presumption seeking assistance but soon died.

Dodgson received a beingness condemnation with his parole eligibility acceptable astatine 12 years.

The Crown asked for the parole eligibility to beryllium accrued to the 15- to 18-year scope due to the fact that the archetypal condemnation was "not proportionate to the gravity of the offence" and that the justice erred successful treating Dodgson's troubled Indigenous upbringing arsenic a mitigating interaction connected his culpability.

The entreaty tribunal disagreed, adjacent though the condemnation was connected the "low end" of what was available.

"We are incapable to reason that the sentencing justice made an mistake successful rule that would warrant the court's intervention," writes Justice Bernette Ho connected behalf of the entreaty court.

"We are not persuaded it is due to condemnation afresh."