Alta. premier agrees to consider more cash for badly beaten apartment caretaker

Dougald Miller was savagely beaten and brain damaged in an attack in an apartment stairwell Nov. 21, 2000 and received $110,000 from Alberta's victims of crime fund - but his wife says it's simply not enough for his ongoing care.

Lesley Miller was beaming as she emerged from a meeting with the premier after asking him to remove the existing cap on payments to crime victims in Alberta.

Stelmach later told reporters that he'll take two weeks to respond after talking with a couple of his ministers and will check on how crime victims are treated in other provinces.

Miller says she was already told by at least one minister that there's no more money available for her husband's therapy sessions, so she appealed directly to the premier.

Earlier this year, the man accused of beating Dougald Miller, Leo Teskey, was convicted after a second trial on aggravated assault charges, which was ordered by the Supreme Court after it ruled an Alberta judge took too long to render his decision in the case.