A sentence of life in prison with parole eligibility after 14 years has been handed down to 36-year-old Matthew Tucker of Oak Haven.
Tucker was convicted of second-degree murder in the shooting death of his mother, Dorothy Tucker in November of 2014 outside of St. Stephen.
Her body was found by hunters in the woods 10 days after she was reported missing, after being hidden by her son which Justice William Grant called ‘callous’ and ‘the most reprehensible thing he did following the murder.’
While there’s been no explanation as to why Tucker killed his mother, Justice Grant said in his decision that his inference is that there was an argument between Tucker and and his mother and the result was that he shot her. She died from a gunshot wound to the head and was killed in her bedroom.
Grant called this a tragic case and said that Dorothy had a bright future ahead of her and that her son, for unknown reasons, deprived her and her loved ones of that:
“While the law is powerless to restore it to her and her to her family and friends, it does have the power to ensure that Matthew Tucker pay a price for what he has done.”
Grant denied Tucker’s request that he be given credit towards the period of parole ineligibility for the time he’s spent in custody before he was sentenced. A conviction of second-degree murder comes with an automatic life sentence but parole eligibility ranges from 10 to 25 years.
Tucker’s parole ineligibility should be above minimum (10yrs) because of domestic nature of case and ‘callous’ post offence conduct: Grant
— Laura Lyall (@LauraLyall) January 25, 2017
