The mother of murdered Winnipeg teen Candace Derksen hopes the Supreme Court of Canada will help provide her with the closure she needs.

Wilma Derksen told CBC News an application has been made to the country's highest court to keep convicted killer Mark Edward Grant behind bars.

In October the Manitoba Court of Appeal ordered a new trial for Grant who was convicted with second degree murder in the 1984 abduction and death of Candace Derksen.

Candace was 13 years old when she disappeared on her way home from school that year.

Her frozen body was found six weeks after she went missing on a dirt floor of a storage shed about 500 meters from her family's East Kildonan home.

The Court of Appeal said it disagrees with the original trial judge who refused to let Grant's lawyer present certain evidence.

"Another trial would be just redundant, it would be expensive, it would be so time consuming and I'm not sure it would accomplish anything different," said Wilma Derksen.
"I think I'm satisfied with what happened the first time around. I think the truth came out."

She said it will be at least another two years before the case makes it to the Supreme Court of Canada.