A man convicted of first-degree murder for killing his business partner in Port Coquitlam in 1994 has died in a Greater Victoria prison.
Correctional Service Canada says David Anthony Lowe, an inmate at William Head Institution in Metchosin, died of apparent natural causes last week.
The service said in a statement Monday that it would review the circumstances of the death, and both police and the coroner have been notified.
Lowe was 59 years old when he was convicted by a B.C. Supreme Court judge in 2004.
The Crown told the trial his motive for killing William Rudy was financial, but it took almost a decade to bring him to trial based entirely on statements Lowe made to undercover officers.
Lowe’s trial heard that he admitted to police posing as members of a criminal gang that he killed his partner at a nightclub where both men had a business interest.
