Peter Beckett has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of his wife Laura Letts-Beckett.
The jury deliberated for 4 days to reach the decision.
Letts-Beckett drowned in Upper Arrow Lake near Revelstoke in August 2010 while she and Beckett were boating in an inflatable boat. The couple lived in Alberta and was in B.C. for a trip.
The crown had argued that Beckett pushed his wife, who didn't know how to swim, into the water to get her inheritance and cash in on an accidental death insurance he opened months before she died.
His defence argued she accidentaly fell in and that Beckett tried to save her.
The trial, which lasted 3 weeks, was the second one for Beckett. His first trial in Kamloops last year ended in a mistrial after the jury failed to reach a decision.
First-degree murder carries an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years.
Beckett, who is a New Zealand native and served as a city councillor for one term in that country, has been in custody since his arrest in 2011.
Laura Letts-Beckett (Facebook)