39 year old Justin Desautels has been sentenced to life in federal penitentiary with no eligibility for parole for 13 years in the deaths of two Dryden residents.
Desautels was sentenced in Kenora Court by Justice John Fregeau Thursday morning.
Justice Fregeau says both second degree murder charges will be served concurrently as well as the assault charges laid against him.
Back on March 2, 2020, Desautels, in a drug-induced crime spree, killed Melvin Brownlee at the Arbour Jade Trailer Park and Dorothy
Brown died from her injuries later that month.
Justice Fregeau admits he would have imposed a stiffer penalty on Desautels, but agreed with the joint submission from the crown and the defense.
He says the opioid homicide rage disrupted what was thought to previously be a safe and secure community.
