The Oak Bay man convicted of murdering his two young daughters on Christmas Day in 2017 will have his appeal heard in the B.C. Court of Appeal starting on Monday.
Berry was convicted of the murder of his two daughters in December 2019, and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 22 years.
He filed an appeal shortly after the sentence was issued, and the four-day appeal will begin on June 20.
The appeal will be heard in at the Vancouver Law Courts, but will also be streamed in a Victoria courtroom due to the high level of interest from media and members of the public.
The Oak Bay man was convicted of second-degree murder for killing his two daughters, 6-year-old Chloe and 4-year-old Aubrey, on Christmas Day 2017 following a six-month-long jury trial.
Chloe Berry (left) and Aubrey Berry in an undated photo.
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B.C. Supreme Court Justice Miriam Gropper told Andrew Berry that he committed heinous crimes against his daughters.
“The girls were killed in their own beds, in their own home, where they had every expectation to be safe,” Gropper said in her decision.
The trial heard each girl had been stabbed dozens of times and Berry was found naked and unconscious in the bathtub of his Oak Bay apartment suffering from stab wounds to his neck and throat.
With files from April Lawrence, Keith Vass, The Canadian Press
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