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Convicted killer Basil Sweezey will face a Jan. 5, sentencing listening to in reference to the dying of a Calgary senior he shoved to the bottom at an LRT station two years in the past.
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However Sweezey’s sentencing listening to will solely proceed if a report into his Indigenous background is accomplished by then.
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Justice Glen Poelman ordered the report back to be accomplished on the request of defence counsel Telmo dos Santos.
Sweezey, 37, was convicted on Sept. 23 of manslaughter within the Oct. 22, 2020, dying of octogenarian Tienquan Yang.
Courtroom of King’s Bench Justice Glenda Campbell dominated an Aug. 15, 2020, incident on the Sunnyside CTrain station was immediately associated to the 81-year-old’s dying at Foothills Medical Centre greater than two months later.
Yang suffered a extreme head harm when Sweezey pushed him over after falsely believing the senior had stolen a conveyable speaker the offender had left to cost on high of a recycling bin whereas he rested on a close-by bench.
