Every pleaded responsible to lowered prices of manslaughter in reference to the June 25, 2021, demise of Blake Walker
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Calgarian Blake Walker was overwhelmed and fatally strangled earlier than being tied up and shoved right into a plastic container earlier than his sure physique was dumped in a car parking zone, courtroom heard Thursday.
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Studying from a press release of agreed details that at one level made two of Walker’s killers snicker, Crown prosecutor Shane Parker outlined the revenge-motivated killing of the deceased.
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Parker mentioned Walker was the ex-boyfriend of one of many offenders, Maryann Smith, who he was accused of assaulting after they have been relationship.
Smith, her cousin, Austen Cole Jamieson and Jamieson’s pal, Sajid Courtland Holloway, every pleaded responsible to lowered prices of manslaughter in reference to the June 25, 2021, demise of Walker, 38.
All three have been charged with second-degree homicide.
Court docket of King’s Bench Justice Earl Wilson accepted a movement for joint sentencing by Parker and protection attorneys Jim Lutz, Rebecca Snukal and Krysia Przepiorka.
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Smith, who lured Walker to her northwest Calgary basement suite so the opposite two may assault him, was sentenced to 5 years in a federal jail, whereas the opposite two served 10 1/2-year sentences right here.
Parker mentioned Smith’s actions warranted a six-year time period and the opposite 13-year sentences, however with credit score for time in custody and mitigating elements corresponding to their convictions, reductions have been warranted.
In sentencing the three, Wilson mentioned their drug-fueled assault on Walker was an instance of how narcotic consumption can result in inhumane conduct.
“You’re taking his life brutally and if that is not unhealthy sufficient, you drag him like he is some type of animal and dump him,” Wilson mentioned.
“You did not deal with him like a human being.”
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However the choose acknowledged that Jamieson and Holloway particularly had tragic upbringings.
Each Snukal, for Jamieson, and Przepiorka, for Holloway, mentioned their shoppers turned to drug habit after every of their moms died, one in a automobile accident and the opposite from most cancers.
At one level whereas studying the details, Parker reviewed an intercepted dialog between Jamieson and Holloway through which the previous boasted that even gangsters have been afraid of them.
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At that time, the 2 males, who have been sitting within the courtroom’s prisoner’s field, might be seen stifling laughter.
Earlier than the details have been learn, Wilson heard sufferer influence statements from Walker’s sister and mom, in addition to a press release from the lifeless man’s aunt, which was learn by Parker.
Aunt Denise Raposo mentioned she was about to have fun her birthday dinner when she bought a name that her nephew had been killed earlier that day.
“My little blue-eyed nephew … is gone and my life and my birthdays won’t ever be the identical,” she wrote.
His mom, Deborah Dexter, who appeared from a distance from Nova Scotia, added: “I by no means thought my household can be touched by evil, however right here we’re.”
KMartin@postmedia.com
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