Last week, Basil Borutski died in prison where he was serving consecutive sentences for murdering Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk and Nathalie Warmerdam in a single-day, rage-filled spree in the Ottawa Valley.

It was an end the Superior Court judge and the assistant Crown attorney (himself now an Ontario Court justice) at the courthouse in Pembroke, Ont., envisioned after a jury found him guilty in 2017 .

After all, Borutski had been sentenced to 70 years of parole ineligibility — three consecutive terms.

But was it justice?

Not for Tracey McBain, Warmerdam's best friend.

And not for Kirsten Mercer, the lawyer who represented a Renfrew County group working to end intimate partner violence at the 2022 inquest into the three murders.

Borutski died on March 28 at a maximum security

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