A DNA order for the national database and 10-year weapons ban were also imposed.
Crooks said she accepted Campbell’s extreme remorse and was glad to hear that she was already accessing programming and help while in custody.
Campbell is Métis and grew up in a home with two alcoholic parents, spending time in foster care at age 11. She was 13 years old when her relationship with a man nine years older started and she had her first child at 16.
Despite a difficult upbringing and challenging adult life, the court noted Campbell had no interaction with the criminal justice system until she was in her mid-40s and said that is a testament to her strength.
Campbell is the second person convicted of killing 25-year-old Johnny Besskkaystare, who died in the parking of the South Hill Mall on September 19, 2021.
He had been beaten and kicked in the head, suffering from a broken skull and jaw with contusions to his brain.
The main perpetrator of the beating was Chandler Laliberte, who was 23 when he was convicted of manslaughter last year.
Laliberte and Campbell both participated in a group beating of the victim with Campbell being found later sleeping in a shed a yard on Ninth Street East.
One shoe was covered in Besskkaystare’s blood and there was some on her pant leg.
She had been drinking and has only intermittent memories of the event, her lawyers said.
Laliberte and Campbell were in a group that had been drinking in a pub in the Ramada Inn when they began a conflict with Besskaystare’s group.
They left then came back and that’s when the fatal beating happened.
Laliberte was sentenced to seven and a half years.
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