Court of Appeal Denies New Murder Trial for Timmy Engel
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LETHBRIDGE: Timmy Engel’s bid for a new trial has been denied by the Alberta Court of Appeal.
Following a lengthy trial in Lethbridge in 2014, a jury found Engel guilty of first degree murder and offering an indignity to a human body, in the 2012 death of 77-year old Vulcan resident Otto “Bunty” Loose. He was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25-years, and three years concurrently for the charge of offering an indignity to a human body.
According to the Calgary Herald, Engel’s appeal focused on confessions he made to undercover police officers during the investigation, claiming they were involuntary. That argument was rejected by the appeal panel, as Engel would have needed to know they were police officers for it to be involuntary.
Engel was arrested after talking to the undercover officers and asking for their help in disposing of evidence, and during a re-enactment with uniformed officers, Engel admitted that he drove Loose out to a rural road near Claresholm, where he slit his throat and waited for him to bleed to death in a ditch. He then put Loose’s body in the back of the vehicle, drove into the woods outside of Bragg Creek where he cut off Loose’s head and hands.
