Chad Kulba gets 7-year sentence for fatal Christmas Day stabbing in Red Deer

A man has been sentenced to seven years in jail for stabbing another man 30 times at a central Alberta hotel on Christmas Day two years ago.

Chad Alexander Kulba, who is 35, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in September for killing Thomas Braconnier in 2015.

Court heard Braconnier, who was 46, had entered Kulba’s suite at the Buffalo Hotel in Red Deer, Alta., and pulled a knife from his belt.

Kulba, who was heavily intoxicated from a mix of alcohol, prescription and illegal drugs, chased him downstairs and repeatedly stabbed him.

The judge said Monday that Kulba’s age, the fact