A convicted cop killer who admitted to sexually assaulting — and, in one case, raping — his younger sisters has little to no remorse for his actions, a judge said Friday.

John Miller was sentenced on four historical sexual charges after entering guilty pleas earlier this year.

"It may be the case that Mr. Miller, in his own muddled way, thinks he has done the right thing," Kamloops Provincial Court Judge Chris Cleavely said in sentencing Miller to five years.

The judge knocked a year off to four years because the accused pleaded guilty.

Miller will not go back to prison. As he is on parole for life for the Pierlet murder, he is considered to be already serving a sentence.

The 63-year-old had pleaded guilty to one count of incest and three counts of indecent assault for sexually abusing four of his sisters over a period of years in the 1960s and 1970s.

Court records show he committed the crimes in Langley in 1963, 1964 and 1971.

Other charges of gross indecency and one count of indecent assault on a female were stayed.

In their victim impact statements read in court last month, Miller's sisters described him as "a bogeyman" and said the years of abuse have stayed with them forever.

Miller would hide under the beds or in the closets of his younger sisters at night and would attack them in their beds.

Sometimes he would carry the girls to his own room.

The attacks also sometimes occurred in the family's washroom, where Miller had set up a peep-hole so he could see who was using the bath.

The attacks ended when Miller was incarcerated for killing a Surrey Mountie in 1974, but he is also alleged to have molested a niece — the daughter of one of his original victims — after being granted parole in the 1990s.

No formal charges have been laid in relation to that allegation, but the incident was referenced in a report by the National Parole Board.

The Crown had been seeking a jail term of up to six years, but Cleavely gave Miller credit for entering guilty pleas and preventing a trial. In addition to the prison sentence, Miller will also have to register as a sex offender and submit a sample of his DNA to a national criminal database.

Miller shot and killed 23-year-old Surrey RCMP Const. Roger Pierlet on March 29, 1974.

Miller, a commercial fisherman who lived with his mother, had gone looking to kill a cop after Miller's brother died in a high-speed chase with Langley police four days earlier.

Around 4 a.m. Miller tossed a bottle through the Cloverdale courthouse window.

Officer Pierlet was called to investigate an act of vandalism.

When Pierlet walked up to Miller's car to ask for his driver's licence, he was killed by a single rifle shot.

The officer died on the same day his parents and fiancee had left Montreal to fly to Vancouver to plan Pierlet's marriage.

Miller was sentenced to hang, but his sentence was changed to life imprisonment after Ottawa eliminated the death penalty.

The 63-year-old was allowed outside prison under parole with two restrictions, one forbidding him from being alone with anyone under the age of 16, the other banning him from drinking.

Miller has a poor record in prison, where he racked up 34 institutional charges for making bootleg liquor and earned a reputation for a sometimes belligerent and challenging attitude.

However, he was rated a low risk to re-offend because of his age and poor health, including the after-effects of a stroke that left him paralyzed on his left side.

- with files from the Surrey Leader

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- by Tim Petruk