A man serving a life sentence for the “gruesome” murder of his wife in their Mississauga apartment over a decade ago has died in a B.C. prison.

The Correctional Service of Canada said Nelson Tayongtong, who was serving a life sentence at Pacific Institution in Abbotsford, died on Sunday, apparently from natural causes. He was 52.

In October 2017, Tayongtong was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder for killing his wife, Aicha Saludares, on Sept. 8, 2012. Saludares has been stabbed 85 times and both a paramedic and police officer described the crime scene in the couple’s apartment as “gruesome.”

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Tayongtong and Saludares, both born in the Philippines, married in Ontario around 2010. Not long after, Tayongtong suffered a deb

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