SASKATOON – Update: Preliminary hearings for Summer-Sky Henry, Robert Thomas, Thomas Sutherland, and Robin John were adjourned. Henry's was adjourned to Nov. 6, John's to Sept. 26, Thomas' was adjourned to Sept. 18, and Sutherland's to Oct. 3. In addition, Cheyann Peeteeuce's preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Nov. 6.
Original story: A preliminary hearing for Summer-Sky Henry, Robert Thomas, Thomas Sutherland, and Robin John starts Friday in Saskatoon Provincial Court. They are four of nine people charged in Megan Gallagher’s murder in September 2020.
Three have already been sentenced. Ernest Whitehead, Jessica Badger [Sutherland], and John Sanderson, were sentenced on a charge of indignity to human remains. In May, Whitehead was given 739 days in jail. In March, Badger was handed a conditional sentence order of two-years less a day. Sanderson was sentenced to 1,096 days, less 327 days for pre-sentence custody.
There is no ban on publication of the details that were presented at the sentencing hearings of Whitehead, Badger [Sutherland], and Sanderson. Court heard that Gallagher was killed in a garage at 709 Weldon Ave. in Saskatoon. She was tied to a chair. Sanderson was called to dispose of Gallagher’s body with his truck. He put her body in his truck before dumping her remains from the St. Louis bridge. Badger provided the gas money.
Roderick Sutherland is back in Saskatoon court Oct. 16 to enter an election. Cheyann Peeteetuce has case management on June 30.
Gallagher went missing in Saskatoon in September 2020 and four months later Saskatoon police said they were treating her disappearance as a homicide.
Brian Gallagher has said that the years of silence of those who knew what happened to his daughter Megan Gallagher caused their family a lot of pain.
“The silence is still taking its toll but breaking the silence works,” he said on social media.
On Sept. 29, 2022, police found Gallagher’s remains along the South Saskatchewan River near St. Louis.
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