Convictions upheld, notorious killer Ian Bush to remain behind bars

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Ian Bush appears in a court room sketch from one of his trials.

Ian Bush will not have a new trial for three murder convictions after the province's highest court tossed out his latest appeal, upholding four life sentences.Ian Bush appears in a courtroom sketch from one of his earlier trials. On Thursday, a panel of three Ontario Court of Appeal judges rejected his bid for a new trial for three murder convictions.

Thursday's decision upholds his other convictions for a shocking triple murder seven year before that incident. In the latest decision, Justice Ian Nordheimer wrote that the evidence against Bush was "overwhelming." "As such, there is no realistic possibility that a new trial would generate an outcome other than a conviction for first-degree murder."

 

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