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A Calgarian who “mutilated” his girlfriend in a Calgary hotel room, causing more than 140 stabbing and blunt force injuries, was handed a 10-year prison sentence for manslaughter on Friday.
Sharilyn Gagnon, a 33-year-old mother, was killed in a northeast hotel room in a brutal act of domestic violence.
Originally charged with second-degree murder, Vladimir Ngbangbo Soki, 32, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Gagnon’s 2021 death following a plea deal arranged by prosecutor Terry Mazerolle and defence lawyer Adriano Iovinelli.
With credit for the time he’s already served, Soki has about five years and nine months left on his sentence.
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