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What an outrage this is.

Alletta Rusnell was 89, a sweet and beloved great-grandmother who’d just joked with her family that she was feeling so well she was destined to live to 100.

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Thanks to her cruel, crack addict neighbour, that wasn’t to be.

Just a few days later, Sharon Baksh broke into her Oshawa apartment and murdered the widow, plunging a knife at least 149 times into her frail body, fatally penetrating her heart, lung and abdomen.

It’s hard to comprehend the evil rage inherent in someone who could stab a defenceless old woman so many times during a robbery. Yet just over five years later, her killer is free.

In a stunning plea deal in the midst of her second-degree murder trial in 2016, Baksh was allowed to plead guilty to manslaughter and sentenced to 12 years in prison for the brutal killing.

With 1.5 credit for every day she spent in pre-trial custody since her 2013 arrest, that left Baksh with seven years and eight months still to serve.