Jason King sentenced to 3 years in prison for negligence causing teenage worker's death
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A former construction supervisor has been sentenced to three years in prison for negligence resulting in an employee's death at a Fredericton job site.
New Brunswick Court of King's Bench Justice Thomas Christie said the principles of denunciation and deterrence were key in the sentence he imposed Tuesday on Jason King, 46.
"Deterrence is necessary to convey to the public that criminal acts will not go unpunished and to deter others from committing similar acts," Christie said before pronouncing sentence.
"In this case I am mindful of the role of deterrence, that it can hopefully play in the sentence I am about to pass."
Christie asked King to stand as he sentenced him to three years in prison for criminal negligence causing the death of Michael Henderson, an 18-year-old employee who died on the job Aug. 16, 2018.
Christie pointed to King's manslaughter conviction for the 2006 beating death of a Woodstock man as an aggravating factor in the sentence.
Mitigating factors included positive comments in King's pre-sentence report about his community involvement, as well as his expressions of remorse, the judge said.
King, who hadn't been in custody, was led out of the courtroom by provincial sheriffs and later driven away in a sheriff's van.
Some members of the gallery who'd earlier walked into the courthouse with King could be seen crying moments after the sentence was announced.
On the other side of the gallery, family of Henderson remained quiet as everyone stood up and left the room.
"I thought he should have had more [time]," Dennis Henderson, Michael's grandfather, said moments later.
"I feel what he did to the family and the friends, he should have had more [time]."
King's sentence was the conclusion of a case that involved a three-week trial by a judge alone for the former Springhill Construction supervisor.
Christie, in giving his guilty verdict in June, said he found King "did nothing he was required to do" when it came to ensuring Henderson's safety on the site.
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