When Wolfpack hitman Dean Wiwchar walked into the lobby of Vancouver’s Sheraton Wall Centre to execute rival Sandip Duhre in 2012, he showed “an outrageous and shockingly casual disregard the sanctity of life,” a B.C. Supreme Court judge said Friday.

“That nobody else was caught in the crossfire at the execution of Mr. Duhre in a busy public restaurant in a high-end hotel in downtown Vancouver … is nothing short of miracle,” Justice Kathleen Ker said as she sentenced Wiwchar to 20 years in prison.

“Regrettably, the Lower Mainland has been and continues to be afflicted by the fallout from ongoing gang rivalries, turf disputes and, at times, seemingly overt warfare on its streets.”

Wiwchar entered a surprise guilty plea on Oct. 30 to two counts of conspiracy to commit murder – one for the

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