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COURT â€" 3 Vick il Wark h der ; ickers guilty of brutal Warkworth murder | % s + I fear you have killed US _ held in Oshawa, where potential jurors _ Sobbingand slumpedinachair,:e tulld n mc hss Ts E 1 Amaukt i had less exposure to reports of the murâ€" _ police what had happened â€"â€" grudgingly o M tomes im :: s T + G“, lSGYS gneving sister derand Cogy’s trial. 3 gt first â€"â€" always stressing that Cody had }*’ i ms1 C oi $ â€" JEEF MITCHELL During the trial, which began in early committed a sudden, savage killing and _ | perginatd C C € October, prosecutors David Thompson _ then ordered him to assist with the afterâ€" _ | seâ€"â€"rere f £ ) jmitchell@durhamregion.com and Nancy Rae presented evidence they â€" math. e e esd € said proved Mr. Vickers had planned to _ "Do it," he quoted the boy as saying; "or j l o. } . sgef £€ + OSHAWA â€"â€" Marc Viekers has been found _ get away with murder. you‘re next." e escA \ i =@ . guilty of firstâ€"degree murder in the brutal _ Court heard that prior to the killing on Ms. Barnoski‘s body was recovered June® | f:, az killing of Michelle Barnoski, a crime that _ May 27, 2008, Mr. Vickers had quit hisjob 12, 2008, after Mr. Vickers told police _ kh o es 5? .;1' ; shocked Warkworth with its ferocity and _ and planned to move away from Warkâ€" where to find her. n i eeet . .. _R !3, s 2s i ; brazenness. worth and had disposed of a .22 calibre _ Mr. Vickers was originally charged with _ | t LE l:’“ sc " _A jury delivered the verdict late in the _ rifle at a gun shop. being an accessory after the fact to murâ€" _ | o n d e se tig. 2) ;’ d . , afternoon Saturday, on their fourth day The Crown said that move was a ruse: _ der but as police continued to investigate _ | 1 P iedciga l o .+ =2 »?5 g@ of deliberations. _ Mr. Vickers actually had two rifles. his role, the charge was upgraded to secâ€" in commmmiliiid 4 25 â€"£ _ "Ch t ; _ The verdict marked the culmination _ The .22 used in the murder had been ondâ€"degree murder, then firstâ€"degree. ,.s.Lâ€",_«,,fl: o t n 2k y of a tense wait for relatives of the slain _ given to him by Ms. Barnoski‘s father and _ The conviction carries an automatic . [ | W "haas.2 P 2 * ?,‘E'; Ey J °_ woman. Mr. Vickers kept that gun. life sentence with no parole eligibility for TCO ieb el l 5 <4 1 ol 5:";(_&!5 4 , _ They delivered emotional victim impact 25 years. en in n e n n . statements, speaking directly to the man ‘ ‘ He will be formally sentenced by Supeâ€" _ MARC VICKERS : they say could have stopped the murder I want you to tior Court Justice Bryan Shaughnessy of their beloved "Mimi‘, but did not. k th Brad myhean Dec. 3. noski‘s mother, Marianne Pelletier, said. " _ "You have not only murdered Michelle," nowillioweicizesog my i23 After Saturday‘s verdict, the judge, _ "I invited you into the family, giving , ~said Linda Epstein, Ms. Barnoski‘s sister, _ and my door to you forever. allowed Ms. Barnoski‘s loved ones to _ you the mom‘s seal of approval." "I fear you have killed us all." Mananne Pellatier > read their victim impact statements into _ The frail Ms. Pelletier, moving with = _ The lanky Mr. Vickers, 36, betrayed little the record. the assistance of a walker and breathing reaction when the verdict was announced ’ , They were expressions of raw emotion, from an oxygen tank, grimly condemned * {shortly after 4 p.m. at the Oshawa courtâ€" telling of the pain over Ms. Barnoski‘s Mr. Vickers for deceiving Ms. Barnoski‘s , house. T violent death and the betrayal dealt them _ family after she went missing. He quivered slightly, clenched and by Mr. Vickers, a shy and damaged man "I want you to know I have closed my ; unclenched his hands, and exhaled. He _~ He taught Cody to load and shoot it, who had been welcomed into their famâ€" _ heart and my door to you forever," she remained silent, as he has throughout â€" jurors heard. ily during his relationship with Ms. Barâ€" said, gazing at the man in the prisoner‘s * ‘this trial, during which no evidence was _ And neighbours said that days prior to noski‘s sister, Nina. dock. : , â€"called by the defence. the murder, they had seen Cody and Mr. "You crushed me, Marc," said Ms. Barâ€" "Goodbye, Marc." s 4 , Behind him sat his mother, staring Vickers digging at night in the yard, an _2 22cn_____â€" s _ silently and sadly at the floor. odd sight one took to be "midnight garâ€" The verdict means the jury acceptâ€" dening" â€"â€" growing marijuana. F * ‘ed the Crown‘s theory that Mr. Vickers _ Mr. Vickers admitted helping bury Ms. . ~helped plan and conceal the killing of Barnoski and cleaning up the house â€"â€" he Ms. Barnoski, 33, who was bludgeoned, _ and Cody did such a thorough job that â€" : _ shot eight times, then bound in blankets highâ€"tech forensic testing failed to find ; ) and a tarp and buried in a shallow grave . traces of blood â€"â€" and ditching Ms. Barâ€" __mw___%c_m _ in the backyard of Mr. Vickers‘s Concesâ€" _ noski‘s car in a field outside the village. j y , _ sion Street home. He and Cody cooked up a story that Ms. M” 0 26/10 The jury heard evidence that Ms. Barâ€" â€" Barnoski had argued with her son â€"â€" a ¢ 1 us 8 6 : _ noski‘s son Cody, 14 at the time, likely _ regular occurrence â€"â€" and stormed out of Omen t‘S‘ ca carried out the execution of his mother. _ the house, never to be heard from again. 5 ® 3 + But Mr. Vickers, the former commonâ€" _ And Mr. Vickers provided police invesâ€" Sn veth t milestc , _ law partner of the slain woman‘s sister â€" tigating Ms. Barnoski‘s disappearance f who shared the house with Michelle and _ with a phony alibi, saying he‘d been in : _Cody, was a full participant and partner _ Brampton the night of May 27. _ in the crime, the Crown alleged. _ But when an OPP detective conffonted ) Cody was convicted of firstâ€"degree Mr. Vickers about the alibi, he collapsed flms mt _ murder after a sensational trial last year â€"â€" visibly â€"â€" and began providing details | S eaths uay 4 in Peterborough. Mr. V}cfkerss trial was ; épo}lt what had really happened. COTTER, Betty Lenore: Peacefully at T ow ~ommmcvommmtrnnanie the Northumberland Hills Hospital on » ty aarkuicpens mo y t and . _ Beloved wife of the late | WFAMILYFUN _ 7924y _ wDovu <26/0 Bruce Cotter. _ Loving mother. of Brad t A j (Nancy) and Brice ( ue();. Cherished > grandma _ of Danielle, Chase, Kolton j Skate W|th Santa and Chad. Dear _ motherâ€"inâ€"law . of g & Michelle.. Daughter of the late Ellis and Beatrice Isaac _and stepâ€"daughter â€" of a f Mary Isaac. Fondly remembered by I n COI bO rn e DeC 4 her â€" stepâ€"sister Cathy Geddes (Jim). § Lovingly remembered ‘by her foster son Aaron Bedard, . Sadly missed by her sisterâ€"inâ€"law . Patricia â€" Wellwood . (Maâ€" CECILIA NASMITH urice) and their famnihy. Friends are inâ€" : Northumberland Today vited to call at the acGoubreg Funeral ° Home, 11 King St., W. 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