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39-year-old Justin Desautels of Dryden has been sentenced to life in a federal penitentiary with no eligibility for parole for 13 years in the deaths of two Dryden residents.
Desautels was sentenced in Kenora Court by Justice John Fregeau. He says both second-degree murder charges will be served concurrently as well as the assault charges laid against him.
Back on March 2, 2020, Desautels, in a drug-induced crime spree, killed Mervin Brownlee at the Arbour Jade Trailer Park and Dorothy Brown died from her injuries later that month.
Justice Fregeau admits he would have imposed a stiff penalty on Desautels, but agreed with the joint submission from the council and the defence.
He says the opioid homicide rage disrupted what was thought to previously be a safe and secure community.