This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.A Winnipeg man convicted of helping to set a rooming house fire that killed two people has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.
He had stood trial on a charge of second-degree murder, but jurors convicted him of the lesser offence.Brenda Campbell, who was 51, and a 61-year-old man, John Bendon, died in July 2016 after fires were set to the front and rear exits of the house.Beardy was credited for time already spent in custody, which reduces his sentence to 15 years.
Grammond said Beardy and his co-accused showed clear planning in setting the fires early in the morning when many residents would be asleep and not alert. Prosecutors argued at trial that Beardy and Barstad set the fires on behalf of the Manitoba Warriors street gang in retaliation for rival drug dealing at the rooming house, which was close to the Warriors’ base of operations.