1. Mum sentenced to life in prison after drugging and killing her nine-year-old daughter in custody dispute.
Laura Coward receives life sentence for drugging, killing daughter. #yyc https://t.co/WATF9vAfTn
— Calgary Herald (@calgaryherald) March 10, 2017
A Canadian mother who drugged, burned and killer her nine-year-old daughter has been sentenced to life in prison, the Calgary Herald reports.
Laura Coward was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 18 years after she plead guilty to the second-degree murder of her daughter, Amber Lucius.
Coward and her ex-husband, Duane Lucius, had been involved in a bitter dispute over the custody of their daughter before Amber was killed.