{"id":7609,"date":"2017-05-19T07:53:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T11:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=7609"},"modified":"2017-05-19T07:53:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T11:53:28","slug":"pamela-pike-sentenced-7-5-years-prison-2013-killing-jason-skinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/05\/19\/pamela-pike-sentenced-7-5-years-prison-2013-killing-jason-skinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Pamela Pike sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for 2013 killing of Jason Skinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <span class=\"spaced\">Garrett Barry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/cbc-news-online-news-staff-list-1.1294364\">CBC News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pamela Pike, who stabbed Jason Skinner to death in 2013 and was convicted of manslaughter, has been\u00a0sentenced to seven and a half\u00a0years in prison.\u00a0 With time served, Pike will spend more than five years behind bars.\u00a0 The punishment was handed down by Justice Donald Burrage on Thursday at Supreme Court in Grand Falls-Windsor.\u00a0 Burrage accepted a joint submission from lawyers for Pike&#8217;s defence and Crown attorneys who recommended that sentence.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/newfoundland-labrador\/pamela-pike-jason-skinner-agreed-statement-facts-1.4119182\">&#8216;She stabbed me to get my pills&#8217;: Jason Skinner&#8217;s dying words part of evidence at Pamela Pike trial<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pike pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was convicted of the charge Wednesday morning, after court heard an agreed statement of facts from the lawyers.\u00a0 According to the statement, the 35-year-old woman stabbed Skinner with a large kitchen knife during a fight between herself, Skinner and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/newfoundland-labrador\/wanda-ash-guilty-manslaughter-1.4000881\">Wanda\u00a0Ash, who in February was found guilty<\/a> of manslaughter.\u00a0 A police officer found Skinner laying on his bed on Sunday, April 14, 2013, with a knife still protruding from his chest. The officer followed a trail of blood in the apartment into the bedroom.\u00a0 In delivering his sentence, Burrage\u00a0said Pike was unlikely to repeat the violent behaviour which led to Skinner being stabbed in his own home and dying in hospital.\u00a0 According to court documents, the fight was set off by a botched robbery attempt, where Pike and Ash attempted to steal drugs from Skinner after a night of taking opioids and ritalin.<\/p>\n<p>Just moments after the verdict was delivered, and Pike was led out of the court in handcuffs, Jason Skinner&#8217;s aunt Carmel Giles\u00a0called the sentence &#8220;not fair.&#8221; Giles said the Crown should have pursued more jail time.\u00a0 &#8220;If they&#8217;re going to reduce the charge, like they reduced it, they should have at least got the maximum under the charge of manslaughter,&#8221; she told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>While Pike apologized to Skinner&#8217;s family on Wednesday morning during court proceedings, and Burrage said he considered the apology to be genuine, Giles said\u00a0no apology is enough.\u00a0 &#8220;I apologize too if I&#8217;m late for a dinner party, but there&#8217;s no apology acceptable for taking someone&#8217;s life,&#8221; she said.\u00a0 &#8220;She might think about it, but she haven&#8217;t got that deep, deep hurt in her chest that you got a job to swallow, you got a job to breathe. You don&#8217;t know how you gets through the next day, you cling on to\u00a0every piece of wreckage just to stay afloat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Competing interests: Crown<\/h2>\n<p>Skinner&#8217;s family has also been critical of the Crown&#8217;s decision to accept a plea agreement in the case, and to avoid a trial.\u00a0 Crown attorney Lori St. Croix said Thursday there are always risks to going to trial, and she felt the sentencing proposal put forward was fair.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;A guilty plea guarantees a result,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We respect the family&#8217;s feelings \u2026 but it&#8217;s our job to look at the law and the facts and the evidence that we have to deal with and to make a decision on that.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of parties involved in a criminal prosecution, and sometimes their wishes \u2026 or what they want to see happen does conflict with other parties who are also involved. And the court has to balance all of those interests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>St. Croix said Burrage&#8217;s\u00a0pre-trial decision to exclude\u00a0a statement Pike made to police also impacted the plea agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/newfoundland-labrador\/jason-skinner-pamela-pike-sentencing-2013-1.4120410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cbc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">By Garrett Barry, CBC News Pamela Pike, who stabbed Jason Skinner to death in 2013 and was convicted of manslaughter, has been\u00a0sentenced to seven and a half\u00a0years in prison.\u00a0 With time served, Pike will spend <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/05\/19\/pamela-pike-sentenced-7-5-years-prison-2013-killing-jason-skinner\/\" title=\"Pamela Pike sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for 2013 killing of Jason Skinner\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[3530],"class_list":{"0":"post-7609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-news","9":"tag-pamela-pike","10":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7612,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions\/7612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}