PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. – A Cape Breton fisherman has been given a 14-year prison sentence for killing a man he said enraged him after cutting his lobster traps and threatening to burn his home.
But the Nova Scotia Supreme Court gave Joseph James Landry about 2 1/2 years credit for time served in custody awaiting trial, meaning he would serve about 11 1/2 years.
Landry was convicted by a jury in November of manslaughter in Phillip Boudreau’s death.
The 43-year-old man vanished on June 1, 2013.
His body has never been found.
Margaret Rose Boudreau, his sister, delivered a victim impact statement before the Nova Scotia Supreme Court speaking of the anguish she felt “knowing his body was left discarded like old bait.”
The Crown had sought a 15-year prison term while the defence asked for a sentence of seven years, minus 2 1/2 years credit for time Landry has served in custody awaiting trial.
Judge Joseph Kennedy left it to the parole board to decide Landry’s parole eligibility.
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