A two-time murderer who was declared a dangerous offender and jailed indefinitely a decade ago has died in a B.C. prison.

Thomas Anthony McDonald, 74, died of apparent natural causes in the Pacific Institution in Abbotsford last Friday.

In 2011, McDonald was charged with first-degree murder after a so-called Mr. Big undercover operation for the fatal shooting of Earl Dean Jones following a barroom confrontation in Dawson Creek three decades earlier.

A judge allowed McDonald’s confession to undercover cops to stand at trial, and he was later designated a dangerous offender and handed an indeterminate sentence. An appeal of the designation was dismissed.

Court records show that on Sept. 25, 1981, McDonald was embarrassed when Jones slapped him in front of other bar patrons for asking to

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