William Sandeson Guilty of Second-Degree Murder, Jury Rejects Self-Defence Claim

William Sandeson Guilty of Second-Degree Murder, Jury Rejects Self-Defence Claim
William Sandeson, left, arrives for his preliminary hearing at provincial court in Halifax on Feb. 11, 2016. The Canadian Press/Darren Calabrese
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A jury found a former Halifax medical student guilty of second-degree murder on Saturday in the 2015 shooting death of a fellow student whose body has never been found.

During his trial, William Sandeson had testified before a Nova Scotia Supreme Court jury he killed physics student Taylor Samson in self defence on Aug. 15, 2015, but the jury didn’t accept that claim.