Manslaughter charge dropped in connection to Manwin Hotel death
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Crown prosecutors have stayed charges against one of the men accused in the killing of a 40-year-old in the Manwin Hotel in January.
Carl George Wescoupe was found dead inside a suite at the Main Street hotel on Jan. 29 after a man in his 30s showed up at a city hospital with injuries, prompting police to check out the building.
Eyan Douglas Ballantyne was charged with manslaughter in Wescoupe’s death and the aggravated assault of another person, but on Nov. 2, Crown prosecutors entered stays of proceedings on both counts.
Five other men, who are also accused of slaying Lee James Boulette, 40, in an apartment on Selkirk Avenue a few days after Wescoupe’s death, are still charged with two counts of first-degree murder in each case.
The remaining co-accused — Ernest John Young, 54, Robert Shawn Murdock, 31, Jordan Elvin McFadyen, 27, Rory Shane Nash, 39, and Kurtis Joseph Dilallo, 39 — are all due in court on the slaying charges on Dec. 1, court records show.
Homicide detectives believe the deaths are linked, but police have not revealed a possible motive.
A provincial spokesperson, speaking on behalf of the Crown prosecutions service, said after a review, the evidence against Ballantyne did not rise to the level of the Crown’s charging standard.
