1 week Ago By Kevin Martin
The prosecution wants restrictions placed on a violent rapist, including electronic ankle monitoring, who just completed his entire sentence for kidnapping and sexual assaulting a Calgary teen. Duty counsel Bob Haslam appeared in Calgary Court of Justice on Monday and asked that Corey Manyshots’ case be adjourned to Thursday so he can try to find a lawyer. Manyshots completed his 12-year prison sentence on Friday and would have been released into the community without conditions had the Crown not applied for a peace bond, which can place restrictions on individuals for as long as two years if they’re deemed an ongoing danger to the public.
Crown prosecutor Janice Walsh, who heads her office’s high risk offender unit, said they have been given attorney general clearance to seek an ankle monitor as a condition of any court order. Under the Criminal Code, a party — with the consent of the attorney general — may ask a judge to order an individual to abide by release conditions if there are reasonable grounds to fear that person will commit a serious personal injury offence. Outside court Walsh, who did not attend Manyshots’ brief court proceeding, said while such applications are common in her unit, they are generally rare.
Manyshots was arrested under a peace bond warrant last week since his prison term was about to expire. He is in custody at the Calgary Remand Centre. If he refuses to enter into a peace bond, he could be ordered to remain behind bars.
Manyshots, 46, and his younger brother Cody Manyshots, 41, were each handed the equivalent of 12-year prison terms in June 2018 after pleading guilty to charges of kidnapping, sexual assault causing bodily harm, robbery and uttering death threats. They abducted a 17-year-old Calgary girl off a residential street on Nov. 14, 2014, while she was waiting for a bus, took her to a nearby alley and sexually assaulted her.
They then forced her to walk 20 minutes to their home, where they kept her for hours and repeatedly raped her. The crime had a significant impact on the northeast community of Taradale, where the teen was abducted. Following the brothers’ sentencing, then-Crown prosecutor Jonathan Hak called the crimes “unmitigated evil.
” But Hak said because they did not have a history for similarly violent offences the prosecution could not seek a dangerous offender designation against them. “Certainly, one of the most depraved offences that I’ve ever been involved with,” Hak said at the time. Because Corey Manyshots had more credit for pre-sentencing remand time his sentence concluded before his brother’s.
Sex offender whose violent attack was captured on security video handed eight-year prison term In sentencing a violent sex offender to an eight-year term sought by the Crown, a Calgary judge on Monday said an even higher punishment may have been warranted. Justice Brandy Shaw noted prosecutor Samina Dhalla had proposed a sentence for convicted Calgary man James Francis Pritchard in the seven- to eight-year range. The Calgary Court of Justice judge said the aggravating circumstances in Pritchard’s case, including that he subdued his victim by striking her twice with a crowbar before forcing her to perform oral sex, called for a significant punishment.
“I would have imposed a sentence in excess of eight years,” Shaw said. She convicted Pritchard, 48, of sexual assault with a weapon last Oct. 29, in connection with a March 10, 2023, attack in southwest Calgary .
Shaw found Pritchard guilty despite the fact his victim could not be located to testify, based on CCTV security video which captured the early-morning attack in which the offender struck the woman, known only by the initials CT, before their sexual encounter. The judge rejected then-defence lawyer Moira McAvoy’s argument Pritchard should only have been convicted of assault with a weapon and that the Crown had failed to prove the woman didn’t consent to performing oral sex. Shaw said even if the woman did agree, it was only because of the threat she would be further assaulted.
“He struck her with the crowbar twice to extort her cooperation so he could get fellatio,” the judge said last fall. She said there were multiple aggravating factors in the case and few to mitigate an appropriate sentence. Shaw noted Pritchard did apologize during sentencing submissions last month, but only for striking the woman with his crowbar.
“Mr. Pritchard advised that he was really sorry for what happened and he was intoxicated,” the judge said. “I find little mitigation in (his) .
.. limited apology.
” But she detailed a litany of aggravating factors which justified a much higher sentence than the 31⁄2 years proposed by defence counsel Kirsten Lancee. “Mr. Pritchard struck CT from behind in the back of the head with a crowbar,” Shaw noted.
“When CT went to the ground Mr. Pritchard struck her a second time.” The judge also said the fact the sexual assault only stopped when a nearby neighbour heard the victim’s cries and intervened weighed against a lighter sentence.
The sexual attack wasn’t Pritchard’s only brush with the law. He was convicted more than two decades ago and sentenced to three years in prison on a charge of criminal negligence in the death of his wife’s four-year-old son. KMartin@postmedia.
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