A 38-year-old man has been convicted of using an axe to kill his mother in her Richmond home nearly three years ago. Supreme Court Tuesday of the second-degree murder of his 62-year-old mother, Redelma Belisario, according to a statement from the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team. During the trial, the Crown said Belisario suffered 15 to 20 chop wounds from an axe. Belisario was found dead on her living room floor on May 19, 2015. A Crown lawyer told the jury the same type of axe was found in the living room and contained the DNA of both Lescano and his mother.

Source: CBC News March 28, 2018 00:00 UTC