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  SASKATOON -- A man guilty of shooting a Saskatoon father has been sentenced seven years in prison. Destin Mosquito was one of four men charged with manslaughter in the death of Kevin Nataucappo, 31. The Saskatoon father was shot during a home invasion he was part of on Sept. 21, 2019. Police found Nataucappo at a home on Howell Avenue. He died from a gunshot wound in hospital. Court heard Mosquito was the one who brought the gun to the home, but the shooting was accidental. The defence pushed for a five-to-six year sentence. Defence lawyer Brad Mitchell said the shooting was “enti...

Photograph By Lisa Joy A North Battleford man facing drug trafficking charges was granted bail. Tyson Goller, 33, had a show cause hearing in North Battleford Provincial Court on April 28. The federal crown prosecutor opposed his release while defence lawyer Brad Mitchell argued in favour of his client’s release. The details of what is said during a bail hearing can’t be published. article continues below

Mitchell argued that Schreiner's mental illness had been evolving for years. One of the key elements in the trial was journals kept by Schreiner. In the year before Brown's death, he began keeping a journal of his psychedelic experiences on psilocybin that included fantastical hallucinations and feelings of paranoia. Schreiner testified that he stopped using the drug in late 2018, but that his mental health continued to deteriorate. He began to believe that people were trying to kill him and that he was being set up to be charged as a pedophile. Mitchell went through testimony from an exper...

Article content To find a Saskatoon man not criminally responsible for the stabbing death of his spouse, a Queen’s Bench judge must find he was suffering from a mental disorder at the time of the offence that rendered him incapable of knowing it was wrong. Much of that determination will hinge on whether or not Justice Ronald Mills accepts what Blake Jeffrey Schreiner said was going through his mind as he stabbed Tammy Brown 80 times in their River Heights neighbourhood home on Jan. 29, 2019. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Blake Schreiner t...

  SASKATOON -- A judge in a Saskatoon murder trial must decide whether the accused was delusional while stabbing his spouse. Justice Ronald Mills will consider Blake Schreiner’s mental state and whether he was capable of appreciating his crime. Tammy Brown was found with 80 stab wounds in the couple’s home on Jan. 29, 2019. Brown’s spouse, Schreiner, admitted to the killing — but has pleaded not-guilty to the first-degree murder charge. Schreiner claims he heard voices telling him to kill Brown and he was paranoid Brown was going to kill him first. The defence is arguing Schre...