A 16-year-old boy who admitted to viciously beating a Mackenzie man with a longboard, will not serve any jail time.
47-year-old Michael Forry spent weeks in a coma after the March 2013 attack outside a Kamloops 7-11. He now lives with a permanent brain injury and is unable to work.
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His attacker, who was 15 at the time, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault. On Friday Judge Stephen Harrison sentenced the young offender to two years probation. The teen can’t own a skateboard during that time and he will be part of an intervention program.
Forry said he has forgiven the teen and he hopes he will turn his life around.
– With files from CFJC
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