Supreme Court of Canada dismisses appeal application from Calgary man who stabbed neighbour 37 times

The Supreme Court of Canada has decided it won’t hear an appeal from the Calgary man who was convicted of manslaughter for a gruesome attack in which he stabbed and slashed his neighbour 37 times, breaking three knives in the process.

Nicholas Rasberry claimed the attack was in self defence, in response to what he described as a sexually charged threat toward himself and his wife from his neighbour, Craig Kelloway.

Originally charged with second-degree murder in relation to the 2013 killing, Rasberry was found guilty of manslaughter in 2015.

That conviction was upheld by the Alberta Court of Appeal earlier this year but Rasberry’s lawyer

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