Article content

KELOWNA, B.C. — A Kelowna man who was found guilty of stabbing his friend to death has avoided jail time.

Chad Alphonse was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Waylon Jackson in Jackson’s Rutland home in 2016.

We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Kelowna killer granted suspended sentence, no jail time Back to video

In March, a jury found Alphonse guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter, rejecting the defence of self-defence.

Justice Catherine Murray concluded the jury found Alphonse was too intoxicated to form the intent to kill.

Crown proposed a sentence of four to eight years in jail, recommending the higher end of the range, while defence argued for a suspended sentence followed by three years’ probation.

Murray accepted the defence’s proposition.

“The principles of sentencing are satisfied in this unusual case by a suspended sentence and probation,” she said in a Kelowna court Wednesday.

Alphonse and Jackson had gotten into a physical fight the night before a baby shower celebrating Jackson and Naomi Foureyes’s new baby.