Patrick Chareka

Patrick Chareka: Patrick Chareka must serve at least 13 years in prison before applying for parole, according to The Chronicle Herald. Patrick Chareka acted with complete disregard to the consequences for his children, said Justice Nick Scaravelli in handing down his sentence and ANTIGONISH A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge handed down a sentence of life in prison Tuesday to a man who beat his wife to death with a hammer in front of at least two of their children. He pleaded guilty in September year to a charge of second-degree murder in the March 16th, 2011 death of his wife, Otillia, a highly respected and much-loved professor at St. Francis Xavier University. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.