Lennox Island man charged with manslaughter in connection with death of Jamie Sark
LENNOX ISLAND, P.E.I. — A 32-year-old man was charged with manslaughter on April 26 in relation to the dying of a Lennox Island man who went lacking in August 2021.
Christopher Douglas Sark was arrested by RCMP Main Crimes Unit and appeared in Summerside provincial court docket through net hyperlink on April 26 to be charged with Jamie Sark’s dying.
Christopher Douglas Sark was then remanded into custody and is scheduled to seem in court docket once more April 27 at 10 a.m. He isn’t a detailed relation to Jamie Sark.
Kelly Sark, Jamie’s sister, mentioned she “simply knew” one thing occurred to trigger her little brother’s dying final summer season.
“I knew from the beginning that one thing occurred to my brother. I knew it. I simply knew it,” she mentioned in a telephone interview with SaltWire Community from her Lennox Island dwelling on April 26. “It’s that instinct. I knew one thing was unsuitable.”
Now the household has a minimum of one piece to the puzzle across the circumstances resulting in his dying.
“I’m so blissful now we have one arrest proper now. I’m so, so blissful, however I do know we nonetheless have numerous work to do but to see what else occurred and who was all there and the way it went down,” mentioned Kelly.
After her brother’s physique was discovered on Nov. 12, 2021, in a wooded space on Lennox Island, Kelly mentioned she and others ran by every kind of eventualities attempting to determine what could have occurred.
“I instructed them, ‘No, that’s not what occurred, anyone put him right here. One thing occurred to my brother.’ And I simply knew it,” she mentioned. “That’s our household, you will have that robust instinct. You know the way your loved ones acts; what their routine is.”
However she mentioned she doesn’t need to give it some thought all an excessive amount of.
“It simply breaks my coronary heart. I simply slowly attempt to course of it as a result of he’s my child brother – my solely child brother – and it’s upsetting to know we had been heading in the right direction from the start.”
RCMP Sgt. Chris Gunn mentioned the investigation continues to be energetic and couldn’t say any extra, when SaltWire Community spoke to him by telephone on April 26.
“Via the investigation, the RCMP Main Crime Unit deemed the dying suspicious in nature. On April 25, 2022, they arrested a person in reference to the investigation,” mentioned the information launch.
The RCMP want to thank everybody who got here ahead with data to help the Main Crime Unit, and Gunn urged anybody with data to contact the East Prince RCMP or Crimestoppers.
