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Man gets five more years in fatal knife attack
A jury took a mandatory life sentence off the table when they ruled Robert Prince didn’t deliberately stab a man to death.
Now the convicted Winnipeg killer has been sentenced to five more years in jail.
Prince, 46, was convicted of manslaughter earlier this year. A jury found him not guilty of the more serious charge of second-degree murder.
He returned to court Wednesday for sentencing, where Queen’s Bench Justice Robert Dewar sentenced him to seven years, less two years of time already served.
Defence lawyer Ryan Amy had requested a total five-year sentence on paper. The Crown was seeking nine years total.
Darryl John Sinclair, 45, suffered fatal injuries during the January 2011 incident. Prince didn’t deny killing Sinclair by slashing his throat. But he argued the attack was a tragic accident, a position the jury clearly accepted in finding him guilty of the reduced charge.
Jurors heard that trouble began when Sinclair and his girlfriend joined Prince for a night of drinking inside a Manitoba Housing apartment highrise at 269 Dufferin Ave., where all three lived. Sinclair wanted to leave the gathering at Prince’s suite, but his girlfriend did not, court was told. Sinclair then struck the woman in the face before fleeing. That’s when Prince grabbed a knife, followed Sinclair into the hallway and attacked him with the single stab wound.
"He acted on the sudden, before his passions had cooled," Amy told jurors in his closing arguments. "If he meant to kill, why did he allow (the victim) to walk away? Why didn’t he, pardon the crassness, finish the job?"
Police found Sinclair collapsed in a pool of blood in a stairwell after one of the other tenants in the building called police.
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