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Crown asks for 15 years for manslaughter, 10 for robbery in Levi Cayen trial

The Crown prosecution in the trial of Levi Cayen is asking for a 10-year sentence for robbery, and a 15-year sentence for the killing of Alexander Norwegian.
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Sentencing for Levi Cayen resumed this week after being delayed for a month. NNSL file photo

The Crown prosecution in the trial of Levi Cayen is asking for a 10-year sentence for robbery, and a 15-year sentence for the killing of Alexander Norwegian.

Crown prosecutor Duane Praught asked Justice Shannon Smallwood to hand down the sentence during the second day of sentencing on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear if the Crown was asking for the sentences to be served consecutively or simultaneously.

In arguing for the sentence, Praught said Cayen was guilty of SA国际影视传媒渢he highest level of culpability,SA国际影视传媒 for manslaughter, since, he argued, Cayen knew his actions could result in NorwegianSA国际影视传媒檚 death.

He pointed out that Cayen and his co-conspirators had brought weapons with them.

SA国际影视传媒淰iolence was not only contemplated, but anticipated, if not expected,SA国际影视传媒 he said.

Cayen is the last of four offenders to be sentenced for the beating, robbery and killing of 25 year-old Norwegian. The victim succumbed to hypothermia after being abandoned by his attackers.

Also on Tuesday, Smallwood ruled that records showing Cayen had been found guilty of certain infractions while in custody were admissible as evidence. The Crown is asking Cayen not be given credit for time already served due to these infractions.

Hearings are expected to continue Wednesday afternoon.

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The Crown, on Tuesday, entered into the record more than one dozen impact statements written by those who were close to Norwegian, who was found dead in his car on the KatlSA国际影视传媒檕deeche First Nation in December 2017. Praught read many of those statements aloud.

NorwegianSA国际影视传媒檚 mother, Wanda, read her own statement to the court.

SA国际影视传媒淭here are many sleepless nights,SA国际影视传媒 she said. SA国际影视传媒淭ragic deaths and murders in the news trigger me, and I think about those families and how painful it is.

SA国际影视传媒淭he death of my son is causing the utmost pain and suffering that I deal with every moment of every day SA国际影视传媒 something I will never forgive them for, forever.SA国际影视传媒

Both the victimSA国际影视传媒檚 grandmother, Elsie Bouvier, and aunt, Barbi Bouvier, argued in their statements that justice had not been served when the verdicts were delivered to the perpetrators. The jury found Cayen guilty of manslaughter rather than the original charge of first-degree murder in March.

SA国际影视传媒淚 donSA国际影视传媒檛 believe that justice was served,SA国际影视传媒 said Barbi Bouvier.

Elsie Bouvier, had some words for her grandsonSA国际影视传媒檚 killers: SA国际影视传媒淢y wish is that all that were involved in AlexanderSA国际影视传媒檚 death live to an old age, and always remember what they did in December 2017.SA国际影视传媒





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