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The “childlike” Calgary man convicted of murdering his aged father will face a sentencing listening to subsequent month.
Pupil-at-law Mackenzie McCaffrey appeared in Calgary Courtroom of King’s Bench Friday on behalf of defence counsel Katherin Beyak to schedule a half-day sentencing listening to for Vincent Fong on Might 1.
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McCaffrey informed Justice Glen Poelman that Beyak had been in contact with the court docket’s trial co-ordinator to schedule the listening to to find out the size of Fong’s parole ineligibility.
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“A date for sentencing has been obtained and that date, sir, is Might 1,” McCaffrey stated.
She requested that Poelman difficulty a choose’s order for Fong’s attendance earlier than Justice Paul Jeffrey to listen to submissions from the defence and Crown prosecutor Margot Engley.
Fong, 41, was convicted on March 4 of second-degree homicide, when jurors rejected Beyak’s submission her consumer was in an abusive relationship that he couldn’t escape when he killed his father, Shu Kwan (Ken) Fong, 70.
The lawyer had argued that would cut back her consumer’s culpability and he ought to solely have been convicted of manslaughter.
Beyak informed an 11-member jury her consumer’s mental difficulties and psychological well being issues, which included extreme autism, left him incapable of escaping his abusive father’s grip.
However Engley, in in search of a second-degree homicide conviction, recommended Fong was no completely different than any youngsters who don’t wish to be berated by their dad and mom.
“In some methods he comes throughout as fairly childlike,” she stated, in urging jurors to not have sympathy for Fong in figuring out their verdict.
On the afternoon of Jan. 9, 2019, Fong pushed his father down a set of stairs within the household’s northwest Calgary dwelling earlier than repeatedly stabbing him after being scolded by the deceased.
Beyak stated Fong’s autism spectrum dysfunction, obsessive compulsive dysfunction and delicate mental deficiencies made him extra vulnerable to being victimized by his father.
KMartin@postmedia.com
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