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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