Scion of Canadian Beer Dynasty Wails as He's Found Guilty of Father's Murder

As 12 jurors each repeated the guilty verdict, those in the gallery at the Saint John Law Courts today could discern disconnected phrases — "going to jail … my children" — through Oland's sobs. Defense lawyer Gary Miller clasped his client by the shoulders.

It was a chaotic, emotional conclusion to a murder trial that exposed the private dysfunction of some of Atlantic Canada's wealthiest elites.

The wretched scene at court paled alongside the brutality of the crime of which Oland, 47, a former financial advisor, has now been convicted. His father, multimillionaire Richard Oland, part of the sixth-generation of Moosehead beer-brewing Olands, was found beaten and hacked to death in a pool of blood on the floor of his office on July 7, 2011. Since the earliest days of the investigation, Dennis — the last known person to see Richard alive, who lied to police about what he did on the day of the murder, who owed his father hundreds of thousands of dollars, and on whose jacket was found traces of his father's blood — was the only suspect......................

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