VANCOUVER -A British Columbia man found guilty in the death of a young girl in 1978 has lost an appeal of his first-degree murder conviction. GRAPHIC WARNING: The following details may be disturbing for some readers. A unanimous ruling by the B.C. court of appeal rejects Garry Handlen’s argument that his confession of abducting, sexually assaulting and strangling 12-year-old Monica Jack was based on media reports and should not have been admitted at trial. Handlen was found guilty in 2019 and sentenced to an automatic life sentence of 25 years without parole for the gruesome murder of the girl, who disappeared in Merritt, B.C., while riding her bike home to nearby Quilchena. At his sentencing hearing in B.C. Supreme Court, Justice Austin Cullen called Handlen a sexual predator who preyed

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