BC predator declared dangerous offender, given indeterminate prison sentence
Posted December 1, 2015 2:30 pm.
Last Updated December 1, 2015 5:10 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – A British Columbia man who plied two teenage girls with drugs and alcohol and failed to intervene as they died has been declared a dangerous offender.
Martin Tremblay of Richmond has been handed an indeterminate prison sentence.
Friends and family of 17-year-old Martha Jackson and 16-year-old Kayla Lalonde cried and cheered as a BC Supreme Court judge handed down his decision.
Tremblay was convicted of criminal negligence causing the girls’ deaths in March 2010 for inviting them to his home, giving them drugs and alcohol until they passed out and videotaping himself sexually assaulting them.
“When I finally heard he was a dangerous offender I was happy, relieved and glad that my daughter can finally rest and all of us family and everybody can feel that now,” explains Angela Lalonde whose daughter died at Tremblay’s house five years ago. “It’s mixed emotions you know, I’m happy but I am still sad. I don’t know if he’s going to get an appeal but I’m just hoping it’s over with and he doesn’t get out ever.”
The sex offender failed to help the girls when their conditions deteriorated and drove Lalonde to Burnaby, where he left her on the ground.
Jackson stopped breathing at his home the following morning, but Tremblay tried to persuade another person not to call 911.
