Final pleas entered for 2012 P.A. killing

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On Monday Blake David Norman, 25, joined the other guilty parties with his manslaughter plea. He pleaded not guilty to the charge of second-degree murder.

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Norman – who is from Patuanak – will be sentenced in June and has been remanded until then. At that time, Justice A. Rothery will address other charges Norman faces out of Meadow Lake since Nayneecassum’s death.

Norman and his co-accused, Tasia Natewayes, 29, sat next to each other in the prisoner’s box at Prince Albert’s Court of Queen’s Bench.

Natewayes is the only one to plead not guilty to her charges: which are unlawfully killing and thereby committing manslaughter, and breaking and entering with intent to commit an indictable offence.

Her trial – by judge alone – commenced right after her pleas were entered.

The first day was set to mainly consist of looking at exhibits that will lay “a road map” for the trial proper, said Crown prosecutor Shawn Blackman, with the trial scheduled to last two weeks.

These exhibits include four video statements from Natewayes, Nayneecassum’s autopsy report, video from a drug store, and a series of 200 photos. The photos are from the autopsy, an emergency room, the crime scene, and the vehicle of the Natewayes.

Vandall – the other victim in the 2012 assault – was present at the Court of Queen’s Bench, and is expected to testify on Tuesday.

Other pleas

Natewayes is the only person out of the six accused to plead not guilty on all charges in the assault that ended Nayneecassum’s life.

She’s not in custody.

Kyle Alexander Goodrich, 25, pleaded guilty to manslaughter, break and enter and assault causing bodily harm over a year ago. He’d originally been charged with first-degree murder.

He was sentenced to 12 years, less remand time. In total he’s serving 10 years, eight months and two days in custody.

paNOW is awaiting confirmation of the sentences for the other guilty parties: Michael Trevor Andrew Ward, in his early 20s,  Leo Raine, 21, and a young offender who can’t be named.

When Ward was arrested on a Canada-wide warrant in January of 2013, a Prince Albert Police Service release stated “police investigators believe these offences were linked to drug trafficking activities and were not random acts of violence.”

claskowski@jpbg.ca

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