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Man pleads guilty after garbage dumpster fire manslaughter

Nineteen-year-old Saskatoon man pleads guilty to manslaughter after body of Mervin McAdam found in a burnt garbage dumpster. File / Global News

SASKATOON – A 19-year-old man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for a number of crimes, including his role in a garbage dumpster fire murder in 2012.

Bobby Hannah pleaded guilty to manslaughter and offering an indignity to human remains.

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Mervin McAdam’s body was discovered in a dumpster that had been set on fire in a back alley near Avenue S South in February 2012.

Crown prosecutor Melodi Kujawa says the two men were in rival gangs.

Hannah also admitted to a string of machete attacks in the city, and other crimes of assault and intimidation.

Hannah was a youth when he committed the crimes but was sentenced as an adult.

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