Kevin Allen Honish was killed in July 2022. His former roommate was convicted of manslaughter on Thursday. There were wails and tears in a Calgary courtroom as Collin Oxtoby was convicted of manslaughter in the beating death of his former roommate Kevin Honish.Following a trial in March, Court of King's Bench Justice Michele Hollins ruled Thursday that Oxtoby hit the victim in the head repeatedly with significant force.
But the judge noted that a "reasonable person" should anticipate that delivering multiple, forceful blows to another person's head "would cause bodily harm that would interfere with the health and comfort of that person." Earlier in the trial, prosecutor Gord Haight told the judge that Oxtoby is believed to have used a hammer in his attack on Honish.