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A jury last month found Shevalev guilty of second-degree murder and Madam Justice Catherine Wedge sentenced him to the 10-year minimum before a chance at parole.

Second-degree murder carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison with no parole eligibility of between 10 and 25 years. The Crown had recommended the judge send Shevalev to jail for at least 13 years.

Wedge said in determining parole eligibility, she took into consideration that Shevalev, who had used cocaine since he was 13, quit using drugs after the murder and has completed two-thirds of a business degree at Trinity Western University with good grades.

She also said the sentence needs to denounce the crime and noted he had lied about the murder consistently to numerous people and to police, and knew when he engaged in conflict with his father that he had a history of heart problems.

She also said he had been a daily cocaine user and had stolen $37,000 from his father six weeks before the murder.

But his youth and “good prospects for rehabilitation weigh heavily in his favour,” she ruled. She also noted his mother and father were embroiled in an “acrimonious divorce” before the killing.

Shevalev stood after the hearing ended and was led by a sheriff into custody without handcuffs, past his mother in the front row.

The trial heard that Vladimir, a businessman, summoned his son to his apartment March 1, 2015, to demand he return the Ferrari and $100,000 to him.

The Crown’s theory was during the argument, the son choked his father to death from behind and with a friend’s help placed the body on his bed to try to make it look like his father died of natural causes.