October 30,2025
RED FM News Desk
A third man accused in the 2012 gangland shooting at Vancouver’s Sheraton Wall Centre has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder.
The B.C. Prosecution Service confirmed that Dean Wiwchar entered the plea Thursday in B.C. Supreme Court.
In January 2012, 36-year-old Sandip Duhre—a former associate of the Bacon brothers and ally of the United Nations gang—was shot and killed while sitting in a restaurant at the downtown hotel. The daylight attack caused terrified patrons to flee or dive for cover.
One of Wiwchar’s co-accused, Rabih Alkhalil, was convicted in absentia of first-degree murder in August 2022 after escaping from the North Fraser Pretrial Centre in Port Coquitlam. Alkhalil was captured in Qatar last month after more than three years on the run.
Another co-accused, Hells Angel member Larry Amero, was convicted alongside Alkhalil of conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to 18 years in prison.
This was not the first killing involving Wiwchar and Alkhalil. Six months after Duhre’s murder, Toronto man Johnny Raposo was shot four times in the head while sitting on a patio in Little Italy. Both men were among four people convicted in that case, with prosecutors alleging Wiwchar was the gunman.
Wiwchar is scheduled to return to court on November 14 for sentencing.
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