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A courtroom inside the Court of King’s Bench of Saskatchewan was packed with Megan Gallagher’s friends and family as the judge handed down a seven-year sentence for two women involved in her death.
The judge-alone first-degree murder trial for 31-year-old Cheyann Crystal Peeteetuce and 26-year-old Summer-Sky Henry was set for 39 days, starting on Jan. 6.
Brian Gallagher, Megan’s dad said the sentence “is not okay” and calls for more to be done within the justice system.
Megan Michelle Gallagher was last seen leaving a friend’s house in Saskatoon on Sept. 19, 2020.
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However, on Jan. 16, the two women pleaded to manslaughter.
Now, on Feb. 6, they will both serve their time in a federal institution.
With time already served, Peeteetuce has almost six years left and Henry just over five.
Summer-Sky Henry pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter in the first-degree murder trial of Megan Gallagher on Jan. 16, 2025. (Saskatoon Police Service/Submitted)
There were nine people arrested in the Gallagher investigation.
Brian Gallagher had previously told 650 CKOM, “We really wanted it to go to trial, so that the evidence could be heard. So that we could hear, you know, some of the things, or some of the details about what actually has happened to Megan.”
Brian and Debbie Gallagher with other family members outside Saskatoon Provincial Court on June 2, 2022. (Brent Bosker/650 CKOM)
He had described the news of the guilty plea back in January as a “kick in the gut.” He and his wife have been appearing at the court to hear all the proceedings.
Justice Richard Danyliuk granted an interim publication ban applied for by Crown Prosecutor Tyla Olenchuk preventing any details presented within the trial from being reported on.
The publication ban will also protect the upcoming jury trials later this year for Thomas Sutherland and Roderick Sutherland, who are also charged in connection to Gallagher’s death.
Debbie who is Meghan’s stepmother, said the trials continue on April 28 for Thomas Sutherland’s manslaughter charge and Roderick Sutherland’s first-degree murder trial will begin in October.
On Dec. 6 at Saskatoon’s King’s Bench, 29-year-old Robert James Joseph Thomas was sentenced to life in prison for the second-degree murder of Gallagher.