Teen pleads guilty to La Ronge manslaughter
A 17-year-old charged in the death of Simon Grant entered a guilty plea to manslaughter Monday.
The teen, who can’t be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was facing a charge of second-degree murder, but he instead pleaded guilty to the lesser offence. He also pleaded guilty to committing a robbery and wearing a mask to commit an indictable offence.
Last April, Grant was assaulted during an armed robbery at his Lousiana’s Bar-B-Que restaurant and died two days later in hospital.
“The manslaughter charge is a bit of a strategy the Crown is using, and my family and myself are OK with it,” said Grant’s widow Cora Laich. “The charge doesn’t mean as much as the sentencing. That’s what’s important is what sentence this young man will get.”