Roderick Sutherland has been found guilty of manslaughter in connection with the 2020 murder of Megan Gallagher.

A 12-person jury at Court of King's Bench in Saskatoon returned its verdict Friday afternoon, its second day of deliberations. Jurors also found Sutherland guilty on charges of unlawful confinement and offering an indignity to human remains.

Gallagher's family and friends sat in the front row and gasped, sobbed and hugged as the jurors delivered their verdicts, one by one, to Justice John Morrall.

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The decision ends a legal journey for her family that began five years ago when the 30-year-old disappeared under suspicious circumstances.

Police believed within months of her September 2020 disappearance that she had bee

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