Michael Adamson pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter in the death of his wife whom he smothered during a fight while high on cocaine.
“No sentence can replace Christine or placate this tremendous loss,” Justice Mark Poland said as he imposed the suggested sentence.Through an statement of agreed facts, Adamson admitted to smothering his wife with a pillow during a fight about cocaine in the basement on Oct. 1, 2022. He and his wife were both heavy users.
He didn’t mean to kill her and only wanted her to stop yelling, but after realizing she’d died he didn’t call 911. Instead, he hid her body and misled Sarnia police officers until they discovered it during a missing-person search six days later, the statement of agreed facts said. “You have taken a life. You’ve committed a homicide. You have taken away from this family and community,” Poland said to Adamson while sentencing him.Article content
But along with telling the family no sentence will fill the void in their hearts, the judge pointed out the Crown didn’t have a strong case if it’d gone to trial. Adamson should get credit for accepting responsibility and pleading guilty, the Crown agreed, something defence lawyer Dan Scott said his client wanted to do all along.
Nila Mulpuru, Lambton’s acting Crown attorney, called it a special case due in part to a pathology report that didn’t say exactly how Christine Adamson had died. Adamson also had no prior criminal record after an additional charge of cocaine possessionSeveral victim-impact statements were either read out loud or filed in court Monday detailing how losing Christine Adamson has affected survivors.
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