Calgary man who killed girlfriend also guilty of murder in her daughter's death
CBC
The man who confessed to killing a Calgary mother has now also been convicted of murdering the woman's toddler, a child he'd previously told the court he loved.
On the first day of his October 2021 trial, Robert Leeming, 36, pleaded guilty to murdering girlfriend Jasmine Lovett but not guilty in the death of her daughter, 22-month-old Aliyah Sanderson.
On Monday, Court of Queen's Bench Justice Keith Yamauchi found Leeming lied in his testimony.
"Mr. Leeming is not a believable witness," said Yamauchi reading from his 54-page decision.
Leeming testified in his own defence and claimed that while caring for the girl, Aliyah died after accidentally falling down stairs in the townhome the three shared in April 2019.
When Lovett came home, he said she found her daughter unresponsive in bed.
Leeming said he killed Lovett — attacking her with a hammer and then shooting her — when she began to question whether he was to blame for her daughter's injuries.
He struck her several times with a hammer before coming back with a rifle and shooting her in the head.
In the weeks after the deaths, police launched an undercover investigation.
Five hours into that investigation, Leeming took the undercover officers to the bodies he'd hidden in Kananaskis in shallow graves.
"Someone tried to expose who I am and it ended badly," Leeming told the officers.
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