Family ‘learned to hate’ after Laura Babcock was killed, sentencing hearing told
TORONTO — The family of Laura Babcock said they have learned to hate since finding out that their daughter was brutally killed and her body was burned in an animal incinerator.
Babcock’s parents and her brother expressed their hatred and heartbreak in a victim impact statement read out Monday at a sentencing hearing for Dellen Millard and Mark Smich, who were found guilty in December of first-degree murder.
“We hate you for taking Laura’s life away from her,” the family wrote. “She should be laughing, dancing and enjoying life.”
At one point, Crown lawyer Jill Cameron, who was reading the statement, choked up.