'Heinous offence': Man who ran over wife to serve 16 years before parole eligibility

A Calgary man who deliberately drove over his wife with a van during an argument and left her to die alone on a snow-covered street will not be eligible for parole until he has served 16 years of his life sentence, an Alberta judge ruled Wednesday. Ronald Candaele was convicted last year of second-degree murder in the February 2020 killing of Melissa Rae Blommaert. Court heard Candaele and Blommaert had been arguing when she got out of the vehicle in the Bowness neighbourhood of northwest Calgar