Man sentenced in Calgary swarming death loses bid for appeal
Posted Jun 1, 2020 12:00 pm.
Last Updated Jun 1, 2020 1:25 pm.
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CALGARY (660 NEWS) – One of the attackers in a high-profile killing sparked by a racial slur in Calgary is being denied an appeal.
In May 2019, Nathan Gervais was convicted of first-degree murder in the swarming death of Lukas Strasser-Hird.
The 18-year-old victim was kicked, beaten, and stabbed to death outside the Vinyl nightclub in 2013. He was targeted for speaking up when another man shouted a racial slur at a bouncer.
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Gervais fled the country but was eventually arrested in Vietnam in February 2018 and brought back to face trial.
He was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.
Two other men convicted in connection with the attack, Franz Cabrera and Assmar Shlah, appealed their cases to the Supreme Court last November.
The court dismissed those appeals as well.
