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Brian Malley appeals murder conviction of disabled Alberta client

Victor Shachtay / Brian Malley
Victor Shachtay after RCMP announce an arrest has been made in the murder of his daughter, Victoria Shachtay, a 23-year-old Innisfail woman who was killed on Nov. 25, 2011, when a parcel delivered to her home exploded, during a news conference in Innisfail, Alta. May 28, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

RED DEER, Alta. -A man is appealing his conviction in the bombing death of a young woman in central Alberta.

A jury found Brian Malley, who is 57, guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Victoria Shachtay at her home in Innisfail in 2011.

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Shachtay, who was paralyzed in a car crash in 2004, died in her wheelchair when she opened a gift bag that exploded.

The gift bag containing a homemade pipe bomb had been left on the doorstep.

Malley became Shachtay’s financial adviser after she received $575,000 court settlement from the crash.

Malley’s case is scheduled for May 12 in the Court of Appeal in Calgary.

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