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Women charged with torturing and killing La Ronge woman over a drug debt under $1,000, found guilty of manslaughter
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Two women involved in the torture and stabbing death of a woman from La Ronge were both found guilty of manslaughter and kidnapping rather than the original charge of second degree murder.
Sharise Sutherland-Kayseas and Deborah McKenzie appeared via video conference at Court of King’s Bench in Prince Albert Monday. Their trials wrapped up last April and the verdict was rendered by Madame Justice Zerr.
During her address to the court, Zerr said it was determined McKenzie and Sutherland-Kayseas had formed a common intention to carry out an unlawful purpose and helped each other carry out their plan. McKenzie ordered Sheena Billette’s kidnapping, provided the vehicle she was taken in, while Sutherland-Kayseas was the one that physically put Billette into the vehicle and drove it out to where Billette’s body was eventually found.