PORT HAWKESBURY, NS – The captain of a Cape Breton lobster boat has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for using his vessel to ram the speedboat of a neighbour accused of cutting traps.
Dwayne Matthew Samson pleaded guilty in May to manslaughter, having admitted he was steering the Twin Maggies when it struck Phillip Boudreau’s much smaller boat on June 1, 2013 – the last day Boudreau was seen alive.
An agreed statement of facts presented to the court in Port Hawkesbury says Samson and his family had a long-held suspicion that Boudreau had been interfering with his lobster traps.
Samson was one of four people charged in the case, which attracted national attention in November when a Crown prosecutor said the case amounted to “murder for lobster.”
Samson is the son-in-law of Joseph James Landry of Little Anse, N.S., who was handed a 14-year prison sentence in January after a jury found him guilty of manslaughter.
Deckhand Craig Landry pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact and was sentenced to 28 days in jail.
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