Life sentence handed out to killer of Chilliwack, B.C., man

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British Columbia

Police accidental successful a connection that the condemnation for Matthew Bauer was handed down Thursday aft a assemblage in B.C. Supreme Court recovered him blameworthy successful February.

Matthew Bauer was convicted of second-degree execution aft slaying of Holbert Tew

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 22, 2025 3:01 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

A constabulary serviceman with a chapeau that reads 'IHIT Homicide Team'.

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says a antheral arrested for second-degree execution successful January 2023 has been fixed a beingness sentence, without the accidental of parole for 12 years, aft the decease of a antheral successful Chilliwack, B.C.

The condemnation for Matthew Bauer was handed down Thursday aft a assemblage in B.C. Supreme Court recovered him blameworthy successful February, constabulary said successful a statement.

Police accidental they were called to a Chilliwack location successful December 2022 wherever 64-year-old Holbert Tew was recovered suffering from stab wounds.

Tew died astatine the scene, the location wherever helium lived.

The homicide squad took implicit the lawsuit and rapidly identified Bauer arsenic a suspect.

Sgt. Freda Fong with IHIT says the onslaught connected Tew was senseless and unprovoked, and their thoughts are with the household arsenic the tribunal proceedings travel to an end.

Tew's decease was 1 of 3 unrelated homicides connected the Lower Mainland that occurred in 24 hours successful December 2022, which included a stabbing successful North Vancouver and a shooting successful Chilliwack.

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