Frank Mather (born 1973) is a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster serving a life sentence for his role in the Shedden massacre of 7 April 2006.
[2] In early 2006, Mather was on parole after being convicted for attempting to steal a truck and had been evicted from a motel in London, Ontario after failing to pay for his room.
[2] Peter Edwards, the crime correspondent of The Toronto Star, described Mather as a muscular man with a swastika tattoo on the back of his neck who "never seemed to learn from his mistakes" as he kept being arrested and convicted for numerous home invasions in New Brunswick and Ontario.
[3] When Kellestine decided to execute the "no-surrender crew", as the Toronto Bandido chapter called themselves, Mather went along with his plans and did not contact the police.
[11] Mather also searched the possessions brought into the barn by the Toronto chapter and found a sawed-off shotgun in a gym bag.
Kellestine had decided to dump the vehicles of the victims and the corpses in Kitchener out of the hope that the police would blame the Hells Angels for the massacre.
[18] When Mather found that the Infiniti was almost out of gas, he decided to abandon the vehicle at a randomly chosen farmer's field outside of Shedden, thus giving the massacre its name.
[23] "Constructive first-degree murder" is a difficult charge to prove in court, and a number of lawyers felt that Mather had a strong chance of acquittal.
[23] Many legal experts felt that the Crown Attorney prosecuting the case, Keven Gowdey, would have much difficulty in persuading the jury to convict Mather of "constructive first-degree murder".
[24] When Sandham testified at the trial starting on 9 September 2009 and cast himself as the victim, portraying all of the others as bloodthirsty psychopaths with himself as an alleged heroic "undercover" policeman out to stop the Bandidos, Mather was visibly angry.