Early guilty plea helps net 2-year sentence for B.C. man who hid ex's mom after killing her - National Post
Jodine Millar was 57 when she was killed in her own home by her daughter's ex-boyfriend. Photo by Coquitlam RCMP/FacebookArticle contentA man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s bipolar mother and hid her body in the woods to be ravaged by wild animals before her remains could be found will spend two years in prison, a B.C. judge ruled earlier this month.
In October 2023, Coquitlam RCMP arrested and charged Carson Saul MacKay, 33, with the second-degree murder of 57-year-old Jodine Millar almost a year earlier in November 2022.
The Winnipeg native, who was apprehended in Calgary, pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges this January and was sentenced by Justice David M. Layton in a New Westminster courtroom on Sept. 15, after accepting a joint submission from Crown and defence counsel.
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Layton said the sentence “reflects a properly functioning justice system, as opposed to one that has broken down, and accounts for the hard decisions Crown and defence counsel must legitimately make in difficult cases.”
According to an agreed statement of facts in his recently published decision, MacKay and Millar’s daughter, Sara, had been in a relationship since 2017. In July 2021, it was agreed that Millar would come to live with them in Kelowna and the trio moved to a home in Coquitlam the following year, where the couple resided on the main floor and she in the basement, with shared common spaces.
“Millar had experienced mental health difficulties, including bipolar disorder, and Sara wanted to look after her,” the judge wrote, noting that the older woman “sometimes failed to take her medication as prescribed.”
By August, the couple had split up and while Sara moved out, Millar stayed in the basement. The decision does not explain why.
