Jury finds Quebec man guilty of second-degree murder in death of Inuk woman
MONTREAL — The conviction of a Quebec man found guilty of second-degree murder in the 2015 death of his Inuk girlfriend sends a message to the Indigenous community that the justice system hasn’t forgotten them, the prosecutor in the case said Wednesday.
Nellie Angutiguluk, an Inuk mother of three, was found dead of apparent ligature strangulation in an apartment she shared with Kwasi Benjamin.
Crown attorney Dennis Galiatsatos argued during the trial in a Montreal courtroom that Benjamin strangled the 29-year-old following an argument.
Galiatsatos said the jury was convinced by the forensic evidence in the case and rejected the defence’s theory that Angutiguluk’s death was a suicide.