{"id":56834,"date":"2018-01-18T07:17:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T07:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=56834"},"modified":"2018-01-18T07:17:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T07:17:36","slug":"facebook-selfie-showing-murder-weapon-helps-convict-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/facebook-selfie-showing-murder-weapon-helps-convict-killer.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook selfie showing murder weapon helps convict killer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook selfie showing murder weapon helps convict killer<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

A Canadian woman has been convicted of killing her friend after police discovered the murder weapon used in a picture of the pair on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cheyenne Rose Antoine, 21, pleaded guilty on Monday to killing Brittney Gargol, 18, in March 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gargol was found strangled to death near a landfill in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with Antoine’s belt near her body.<\/span><\/p>\n

Antoine was sentenced to seven years for manslaughter.<\/span><\/p>\n

She was identified as a suspect after she posted a selfie on Facebook of the two of them, showing her wearing the belt hours before Gargol died.<\/span><\/p>\n

Antoine, who was initially charged with second-degree murder, also eventually confessed to a friend that she had hit Gargol and strangled her, CBC reported from court.<\/span><\/p>\n

She said they were drunk and high on marijuana, and got into a heated argument.<\/span><\/p>\n

Police said that aspects of the story she first gave to them – which was that the pair had visited several bars before Gargol left with an unidentified man, while she went to see her uncle – did not add up.<\/span><\/p>\n

They used Facebook posts to help establish the movements of the pair that night.<\/span><\/p>\n

Police realised that Antoine’s Facebook post on Gargol’s personal page the following morning – “Where are you? Haven’t heard from you. Hope you made it home safe” – was a diversion.<\/span><\/p>\n

As part of her plea, Antoine accepted responsibility for Gargol’s death but said she did not remember killing her.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I will never forgive myself. Nothing I say or do will ever bring her back. I am very, very sorry… It shouldn’t have ever happened,” she said in a statement through her lawyer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her lawyer said her client had suffered years of abuse in the Saskatchewan care system and had gone to police to report abuse by foster parents a month before the killing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before Antoine was sentenced, Gargol’s aunt gave a victim impact statement to the court.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Most days we can’t stop thinking about Brittney, what happened that night, what she must have felt fighting for her life,” Jennifer Gargol said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-42722952<\/span><\/p>\n

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