Alicia's Ross's killer must serve at least 16 years behind bars. Daniel Sylvester, 33, won't be eligible to seek parole until Sept. 20, 2021 for what Justice Edwin Minden today described as a "brutal, vicious and sustained" killing of a "defenceless and vulnerable young woman."
A jury convicted Sylvester on May 29 of second-degree murder in the Aug. 17, 2005 beating death of Ross, 25, his next-door neighbour...
Ross's remains were too badly decomposed to tell how she died, although Sylvester claimed she stopped breathing after he drilled his knee into her chest and bashed the back of her head against the ground during a struggle between the pathway of their Markham homes. But medical experts determined she sustained at least 33 fractures, including most of her ribs and her nose and right cheekbone were broken. Her breastbone was also cracked in the middle and three of her neck vertebrae were also fractured.
