Former New Zealand councillor found guilty of first-degree murder in B.C.
KAMLOOPS, B.C. — A jury in Kelowna, B.C., has found a former city councillor from New Zealand guilty of killing his wife.
Peter Beckett had pleaded not-guilty to first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Laura Letts-Beckett, who drowned in a lake near Revelstoke, B.C., in August 2010.
The jury has been deliberating since Tuesday.
The verdict of first-degree murder carries an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years.