Brayden Bushby, convicted in trailer-hitch death of Indigenous woman, sentenced to 8 years in prison

A man convicted of manslaughter in the 2017 death of an Indigenous woman after she was struck by a trailer hitch from a moving vehicle was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison in Thunder Bay, Ont.

Brayden Bushby was convicted last December in the death of Barbara Kentner, 34, who was from Wabigoon Lake First Nation. The sentencing had been put over in May due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Crown lawyers had been seeking a sentence of eight to 12 years, while

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