Dangerous offender hearing for London man.

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A dangerous offender hearing is coming up for a London, Ontario man, and if he’s found to merit the designation, he’ll be behind bars for life.

That’s the goal for the mother of one of his victims.

Justin Primmer was convicted of beating up Desiree Gallagher in 2013, but her family believes he also threw her off a 7th storey balcony that left the promising 22 year old blind, crippled, and eventually dead.

Justin Primmer is now 30 years old. He’d already served a manslaughter conviction, and one of two eventual convictions for jailhouse assaults.

He is currently in jail, convicted of beating and cutting a former girlfriend in 2013. Her identity is protected, but the court heard she was totally under Primmer’s control and terrified.

Within weeks of that woman’s escape, Primmer met Susan Gerth’s daughter. Desiree Gallagher was a beautiful dancer and budding pharmacist.

On May 25, 2013, the 23-year-old went to a party in London, ended up in Primmer’s apartment, and was found near death after falling from his 7th floor balcony.

Poolice are still investigating how she went over the balcony, but they know Primmer beat her up first.

Gerth believes the photos of her daughter’s beaten face were intended as a warning to another woman.

Primmer served 6 months in jail and Gallagher lived two more years in a wheelchair, completely blind. She didn’t remember the night.

For two years she got better; even played wheelchair hockey and managed simple tasks on her own. suddenly, last year, she died.

When Primmer got out of jail, Gerth alerted newspapers in communities where he tried to settle, including Huntsville. That’s where another woman came forward in 2014, and Primmer was sent back to jail for assault.

While he was behind bars for a few months, the girlfriend he’d had before meeting Desiree Gallagher finally came forward. Gerth was there for the guilty verdict.

Desiree Gallagher’s friends and family started raising money for her rehabilitation with an annual motorcycle ride. That ride will go on this August, but now the money goes to other victims of crime.