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Saskatoon Jury Convicts Roderick Sutherland of Manslaughter in Megan Gallagher’s Death

Prosecutors are seeking to have him remanded pending sentencing, bringing the final jury trial in a nine-accused case to a close.

The jury in Roderick Sutherland's trial at Saskatoon Court of King's Bench returned with their verdict on Friday afternoon.
SASKATOON, SASK. – October 9, 2025 – 1012 news megan gallagher – Roderick Sutherland arrives at Court of King's Bench in Saskatoon for the ongoing trial in connection with the death of Megan Gallagher. Photo taken in Saskatoon on Wednesday, October 9, 2025.
A man has been charged with a three counts after killing Megan Gallagher, a 30-year-old Métis woman and mother, who disappeared in September 2020.

Overview

  • Jurors found Sutherland guilty of manslaughter, unlawful confinement, and offering an indignity to human remains.
  • The 12-person jury deliberated for about 13.5 hours over two days before delivering the verdict late Friday at the Court of King’s Bench.
  • Crown prosecutor Bill Burge said he will ask the court to cancel Sutherland’s release and have him taken into custody pending sentencing, which has not yet been scheduled.
  • An agreed statement of facts said Gallagher was confined and assaulted in Sutherland’s Saskatoon garage before her body was dumped from the St. Louis Bridge; her remains were found on Sept. 29, 2022 near St. Louis.
  • Sutherland was the last of nine people implicated to stand trial, following earlier outcomes that included Robert Thomas’s second-degree murder plea with life and 18 years before parole, two manslaughter sentences of seven years, several pleas to indignity to human remains, and two stayed cases.