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At trial, court heard Bentley was wearing heavy combat boots when he landed a blow on Doucette, who was suffering from an alcohol addiction and attempting to seek treatment.

His daughter Tianna Doucette-Moody said she and her fiance were trying to help her father, and remain devastated that he won’t be in their lives.

“My father was an innocent man who didn’t deserve to die alone in an alley. No one deserves to be treated so inhumanely,” she said while delivering a victim impact statement Wednesday.

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Crown prosecutor Kristen Logan asked for a sentence of eight years, arguing there were a number of aggravating factors in the case, including Bentley being in a position of trust in his role as a security guard.

“Mr. Doucette was figuratively and literally kicked while he was down,” she said.

Logan also said it was aggravating that Bentley defied a publication ban by sending a letter with information about the prosecution’s case to a potential witness in the trial after the preliminary hearing.

Bentley’s defence lawyer Amanda Hart-Dowhun argued her client should receive a sentence of two years and four months, followed by a probation term. She pointed to the “impulsive” nature of the offence, and her client’s troubled background.

Although he was working full time as a security guard when he attacked Doucette, he was “working poor,” living in the YMCA downtown and struggling with a job where he was sometimes attacked and had little support or resources.