Nelson Lugela has appealed his conviction and sentence after the killing of Stampeders player Mylan Hicks, saying the sentence was "extremely brutal in light of circumstantial evidence."

A Calgary man who spent three and a half years in the Calgary Remand Centre is now free.

A judge has found Nelson Lugela guilty of second-degree murder in the slaying of a Calgary Stampeders football player Mylan Hicks.