N.B. senior receives life sentence for first-degree murder

The Moncton Law Courts are seen on Dec. 1, 2025. (Derek Haggett/CTV News Atlantic)

A New Brunswick senior has been sentenced to life imprisonment after pleading guilty to murdering a 52-year-old man in Pointe-Sapin two years ago.

Alphonse Daigle of Pointe-Sapin appeared before the Court of King’s Bench in Moncton on Wednesday, where he received a life sentence with no possibility of parole for 25 years for the first-degree murder of André Després.

The RCMP responded to a report of shots fired at a home on Route 117 around 2 p.m. on April 13, 2024.

Officers found the body of a man at the scene. He was later identified as André Després.

No one else was injured.

Police quickly located and arrested a suspect with help from a Parks Canada peace officer.

Daigle was charged with first-degree murder in the case. He was 70 years old at the time of his arrest.

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