CALGARY – Timothy Douglas Engel will remain behind bars for murdering a Vulcan-area senior in Jan. 2012 after the Alberta Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal this week.
Engel was convicted of first-degree murder and interfering with a body in the death of 77-year-old Otto “Bunty” Loose.
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Loose’s decapitated body was found in bush west of Calgary.
Prior to that grisly discovery, Engel had withdrawn $10,500 from Loose’s bank account.
In appealing, Engel argued his confession to an undercover police officer should not have been admitted as evidence, and that the trial judge’s charge to the jury unduly favoured the prosecution.
But the appeal court disagreed, upholding his conviction.