SaskatoonWarning: This story contains distressing details. Robert (Bobby) Thomas, who has previously pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of Megan Gallagher, testified on Thursday about how Gallagher died. He was called as a witness on Day 4 of the Saskatoon trial for Roderick Sutherland, who is charged with manslaughter.Warning: This story contains distressing detailsDan Zakreski · CBC News · Posted: Oct 09, 2025 4:26 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours agoMegan Gallagher was killed in 2020. The trial for Roderick Sutherland, who is charged with manslaughter, is taking place this week in Saskatoon Court of King’s Bench. (Submitted by the Gallagher family)Warning: This story contains distressing details.Convicted killer Robert (Bobby) Thomas gave an account in a Saskatoon courtroom that contained grisly details about how Megan Gallagher died, five years ago.Thomas, who previously pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of Gallagher, was called by the Crown as a witness on Thursday at the trial for Roderick Sutherland, who is charged with manslaughter, unlawful confinement and offering an indignity to human remains. Sutherland has pleaded not guilty.Under questioning by Crown prosecutor Bill Burge, Thomas, 30, told the jury he is serving a life sentence with no chance of parole for 18 years. Burge walked Thomas through how Gallagher came to be at the Weldon Avenue garage, and how she was tied up, beaten, tortured and killed on Sept. 20, 2020.Robert (Bobby) Thomas is serving a life sentence for the second-degree murder of Megan Gallagher. (Court of King’s Bench)The questioning revealed the overlapping familial relationships among the accused. Thomas said he had been called to the garage by his aunt, Cheyann Peeteetuce, to meet Gallagher. Peeteetuce, who has pleaded guilty to manslaughter, testified Wednesday that she could not recall what happened the day Gallagher died. According to an agreed statement of facts at the trial, Peeteetuce invited Gallagher to the garage to buy drugs.Thomas identified Sutherland in court, saying he had known Sutherland for years “and he could be my uncle, or my grandpa.”Thomas said the mood in the garage was initially “calm” as various people drank and smoked methamphetamine. At one point, he said that he began asking Gallagher whether she was there “to set me up.”Megan Gallagher, left, took a selfie of herself and Summer-Sky Henry in the Weldon Avenue garage earlier on the day that Gallagher was killed. (Court of King’s Bench)Thomas testified that a month before that, he had been confined and tortured by five or six people over a four-day period. While confined, he had been stabbed 18 to 20 times. He said he eventually escaped “by pure luck.”He testified that he suspected Gallagher was involved in that kidnapping. Various people came and went to the garage through the evening, Thomas said. He said he went to a McDonald’s and a nearby lounge at one point, paying with a bank card given to him by Gallagher. He said when he returned, Gallagher was tied to an office chair with extension cords in a makeshift room constructed of spare doors kept in the garage.Thomas said Gallagher alternated between being calm “and freaking out.”At this point, Thomas said Sutherland told him he had assaulted Gallagher with “knuckledusters” and said, “I got her for you, my brother. I got your back.””Then he told me that she admitted to trying to set me up.”Later, Thomas said that he instructed Summer-Sky Henry to wrap Gallagher’s lower body in plastic wrap “but she wrapped her face.””I was on the other side [of the makeshift wall] talking to Cheyann. I checked after. Megan was gone.”The jury has heard that Henry pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Gallagher’s death.Discrepancies examinedDefence lawyer Blaine Beaven questioned Thomas at length about discrepancies between his testimony Thursday and what he said in a September 2022 police interview and during two previous preliminary hearings.Beaven highlighted a dozen different points where the narratives differed. They ranged from whether Thomas knew Gallagher before her death at the garage, when he obtained her bank card, who tied her up in the garage, whether he helped wrap her in plastic or whether Sutherland had one or two pairs of knuckledusters.Thomas acknowledged the inconsistencies, saying they came either from deliberate lying or problems with his memory.He agreed with Beaven that being an undiagnosed schizophrenic using meth at the time of the incident could have affected his memory.The trial resumes Tuesday.ABOUT THE AUTHORDan Zakreski is a reporter in Saskatoon.
Jury hears account of Megan Gallagher’s death from convicted killer Bobby Thomas
