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created on 09/14/2006  |  http://fubar.com/lickaliscious/b1614
By Glenda Luymes, The Province Published: Friday, April 27, 2007 FAMILY THAT SUFFERED AND LIL SISTER WHO WILL NEVER KNOW HER BROTHERPhoto Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket SCRUNT THAT TOOK BOYS LIFE Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Katherine Quinn will be eligible for parole in 10 years. Gerry Kahrmann file photo/The Province The man convicted of killing 16-year-old Matthew Martins will spend 17 years in jail before he's eligible for parole. His girlfriend, who encouraged the brutal beating that ended the teen's life, will be eligible for parole in 10 years. Robert Forslund, 28, and Katherine Quinn, 24, received an automatic 25-year life sentence Friday in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster after a jury earlier found the pair guilty of second-degree murder in Matthew's death. In his sentencing decision, Justice Selwyn Romilly called Matthew's murder a "vicious, senseless killing." The judge rejected Forslund's defence lawyer Karen Bastow's request for 12 years of parole ineligibility, pointing to the brutality of the crime. "The victim was left to die after a brutal and savage assault upon him, and as a result of that assault he experienced a lingering and painful death," he said in his decision. Matthew's body was found fatally beaten at the bottom of an escalator at the Surrey Central SkyTrain station on July 2, 2005. On his way to the station, the small teen came across Forslund and Quinn, who were standing in front of their home. A fight ensued and Quinn received a stab wound under her arm. Forslund chased Matthew, catching up to him at the SkyTrain station. "It was no contest," said Romilly in his decision. "[Forslund] lifted him up and bashed his head into the Plexiglas wall on a few occasions. He kicked his head as if it was a soccer ball ... he stomped on his head ... He picked him up and slammed him down on the concrete on numerous occasions." While the beating was happening, Quinn arrived in a friend's car and told her boyfriend that if he loved her, he would kill Matthew. The entire beating was captured on a SkyTrain surveillance video. Outside court, Matthew's father David Toner said he had "mixed feelings" about the sentence. "I feel that Quinn should have gotten more than the minimum 10 years," he said. "She was the author of this whole thing ... Forslund got what I expected." In a victim impact statement read in court, Matthew's mother, Sandra Martins-Toner, said her family will "live the rest of our days with constant pain ... I have a hatred for others that I never had before." Sobs echoed through the packed courtroom as Martins-Toner described watching her son take his last breath in the hospital. "I wanted it to be me," she said through tears. Martins-Toner recalled returning home from the hospital and telling Matthew's two younger brothers that he had died. One of her sons now sleeps in his brother's room, sometimes sobbing himself to sleep. "I can never bring his brother back," she said. Martins-Toner has also had to give up her job as health-care worker because caring for patients made her feel she was "reliving the final hours of Matthew's life." Forslund also made a brief statement to the court. "There's not very much I can say," he said in a deep voice, his hands clasped in front of him. "I'm sorry that I killed Matthew Martins. I was sorry from the start. That's pretty much all I can say." As he was led away at the end of the sentencing hearing, he mouthed the words "I love you" to Quinn. Crown counsel Wendy Dawson had asked for 12 to 14 years of parole ineligibility for the mother of three, saying Quinn was a person who would be a "danger in a dark alley or even on a lit street." "This court must protect safety on the streets [and] safety at SkyTrain stations," she said. Outside court, Quinn's father said he still believes his daughter is innocent. "Why wouldn't I? It's my daughter," said Moe Quinn. "She wasn't at the beating." Matthew's mother said that while she feels some sympathy for the Quinn family, "I think they're in denial. They have to remember that she has been convicted by 12 of our peers." When asked about Quinn's defence lawyer Jim Millar's claims that he will be appealing the second-degree murder conviction, Martins-Toner said the family will be waiting. "We're preparing ourselves," she said. "This family won't back down."
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