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To: Jim Bishop who wrote (117388)	7/29/2003 2:23:18 AM
From: dkgross	Respond to of 150070

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To: Jim Bishop who wrote (117388)	7/29/2003 10:20:23 AM
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What a story.What a man,wanted her back.(COMTEX)B:Canadian woman who ordered husband's killing gets 7-year term n Australia B: Canadian woman who ordered husband's killing gets 7-year term in Australia MELBOURNE, Australia, Jul 29, 2003 (The Canadian Press via COMTEX) -- A Canadian woman who tried to plot her husband's murder by hiring a hit man was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison. Dorothy Marie Skura, 37, originally from Vancouver, broke down as the sentence was handed down and silently uttered a message to her husband, with whom she is now reconciled. She pleaded guilty to one charge of incitement to murder and must serve a minimum non-parole term of 4= years. Prosecutors in Victoria state Supreme Court said Skura had arranged to pay the equivalent of $25,000 Cdn to a man she thought was a hired assassin to kill her 51-year-old husband, Gerry Skura of Winnipeg, an executive with the Canadian-based grain company James Richardson International in Australia. Police alleged that Dorothy Skura deposited $2,000 in two payments into a bank account to get the murder plot up and running. She is accused of offering a further $23,000 if the execution was completed. Police told the court that a photograph of the intended victim was supplied to a prospective killer. However, the would-be hit man turned out to be an undercover police officer. Senior Const. Simon Black told local media his officers launched a sting after they came to know that Skura had asked several men to murder her husband. Skura stood to gain up to $250,000 Cdn from her husband's life insurance and death benefits, and wanted to return to Vancouver and open a pub, Melbourne newspaper The Age reported in May. Supreme Court Justice Bernard Bongiorno said Tuesday that up to the very end of her discussions with the undercover officer, Skura was "adamant that she had thought the matter through and wanted the murder carried out." After Skura's arrest in March, her husband told police he suspected he had got food poisoning last year from his wife's "natural remedies." On another occasion, when he was taken to hospital for a suspected stroke, traces of sleeping pills were found in his blood. Last December, while he was drowsy and home alone, a fire broke out in his bedroom. His wife was not charged for any of the incidents. Nevertheless, Gerry Skura told the court in May he wanted his wife back. He said he never believed she would go through with her plans and still had no concerns for his safety. The couple and Dorothy Skura's 12-year-old daughter from a previous relationship moved to Australia in 2001. Her husband and daughter are returning to Canada, court was told last week. Before his current posting in Australia, Gerry Skura had worked for James Richardson International in Vancouver. Last year, he went to Melbourne to manage the company's first venture outside Canada and the United States. The online source for news sports entertainment finance and business news in Ca ada Copyright (C) 2003 The Canadian Press (CP), All rights reserved -0- KEYWORD: MELBOURNE, Australia SUBJECT CODE: world * end of story *