The wife of a Calgary man murdered more than three years ago is outraged Friday, after being notified the man who was originally convicted of killing her husband has been granted a new trial.
Christopher Burr was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder in the death of Duane Laybourne.
That conviction has now been quashed by an appeal board.
Burr has been moved from a federal corrections facility into a provincial jail, pending his new trial, which is yet to be scheduled.
“It’s like being a victim all over again,” said Laybourne’s wife, Tammy Holzer.
“I refuse to give him that power over me again …we can only hope that the outcome from the second trial is the same as the first and he stays where he belongs.”
Laybourne’s death was fueled by drugs. Court heard he had started a fight with Burr over heroin.