Tears shed as manslaughter sentencing requests entered
Letters apologizing to the victim’s family, written by a man who’s entered a manslaughter guilty plea, were read out in a Prince Albert courtroom on Friday.
The Crown is asking a Court of Queen’s Bench judge to sentence Blake David Norman, 25, to 15 years while his defence is seeking eight years.
Both sides spoke in depth to their sentencing submissions for Norman during his sentencing hearing for the manslaughter of 18-year-old Dakota Nayneecassum in 2012.
Norman is the fourth to plead guilty to manslaughter in Nayneecassum’s stabbing death. Michael Ward is currently serving eight years for manslaughter, Kyle Goodrich and Leo Raine serving 12, and an unnamed youth was sentenced to two years and five months.