Sex offender who shot woman twice in head gets life in prison for murder

KAMLOOPS, B.C. – A long-term sex offender who has admitted shooting his landlady twice in the head in Princeton, B.C., has been sentenced to life in prison.

Sixty-five-year-old Roger Badour pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and will not be eligible for parole for 10 years.

In December, Badour blurted out in B.C. Supreme Court that he killed Gisele Duckham in November 2011.

He said he shot the woman after she threatened to turn him in to authorities for other offences he’d allegedly committed.

Crown lawyer Lorne Fisher says Badour befriended the volunteer community worker and she allowed him to live in a camper behind her property.

Badour was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant at the time of the murder.

(CHNL)

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