Paul Nicholas Russell was originally sentenced to 10 years in prison after he fired multiple rounds at the Vanderhoof detachment and at unoccupied police vehicles.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.Paul Nicholas Russell shot up a B.C. RCMP detachment in 2021 and has had his sentence cut in half on appeal. As Kristen Johnson reports, the police are not happy.On Nov.
Russell appealed his sentence on two grounds stating the judge “erred in her assessment of the appellant’s mental illness,” and imposed a “crushing sentence on this first-time offender and erred by placing too much weight on denunciation and deterrence and insufficient weight on mitigating factors including the appellant’s mental illness, rehabilitation, and lack of criminal record.
“This is high-powered rounds that take people’s lives and the verdict is insulting. It’s unfathomable given the current environment that our police officers face.”Prosecutors recommend resentencing for Menendez BrothersInternational students are being sexually exploited, trafficked, says Brampton mayorGrowing impact of crime on small B.C.
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