P.E.I. home invasion offenders all sentenced to jail
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CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — 4 co-accused in a Hunter River dwelling invasion and theft of a protected have all been sentenced to jail time however not for the fees they initially confronted.
On July 20 in P.E.I. Supreme Courtroom, the final of the co-accused – Michael Arthur Gaudet, 39 – appeared earlier than Justice Nancy Key and pleaded responsible to forcible entry. Gaudet was sentenced to fifteen months in jail minus seven months (230 days) of enhanced credit score for time already served in custody. The sentence was a joint advice from Crown legal professional John Diamond and legal-aid lawyer Thane MacEachern.
Initially, Gaudet and the opposite co-accused – Michael Robert Bryenton, 44, Amanda Olivia Fairhurst, 20, and Laura Kimberly Beaton, 39 – have been charged with break and enter to commit an indictable offence and carrying a masks in relation to the Feb. 18 dwelling invasion.
All 4 agreed to plead responsible to forcible entry as an alternative of break and enter, and the mask-wearing allegations have been stayed.
Diamond famous that the sufferer’s co-operation with police was “lower than stellar.”
Residence invasion
In keeping with the info learn in court docket, on the morning of Saturday, Feb. 18, the 4 offenders drove to Hunter River from Charlottetown in Bryenton’s gray 2007 Honda Match.
At 8:10 a.m., the proprietor of a bakery in Hunter River situated on Route 13 phoned 911 to report yelling and screaming from an upstairs residence adopted by three folks – later recognized as Gaudet, Bryenton and Fairhurst – coming down the steps carrying masks. The three offenders then fled the scene within the gray Honda pushed by Beaton. The bakery proprietor was additionally the owner of the upstairs residence.
The house invasion victims – a girl and her boyfriend, Dean Fairhurst (Olivia Fairhurst’s father), additionally phoned 911 to report that three masked folks broke into their residence, stole a locked protected from the bed room after which left. The lady acknowledged Bryenton as one of many masked offenders.
Offenders arrested
At 8:40 a.m., the 4 offenders have been discovered by police contained in the gray Honda on Kenwood Circle and arrested. Olivia Fairhurst had two of the masks hidden beneath her clothes whereas a 3rd camouflage masks and break-in instruments have been discovered contained in the car.
On the time of the offence, Gaudet was carrying an digital monitoring bracelet on account of earlier court docket issues. Information data from digital monitoring positioned Gaudet on the Hunter River Irving at 7:56 a.m. that morning with Bryenton seeking to buy the masks, after which on the residence on the time of the break-in from 8:04 a.m. to eight:07 a.m.
Diamond described Olivia Fairhurst because the “instigator” of the Feb. 18 offence. Her father, Dean Fairhurst, has a prison historical past that concerned drug offences.
Chatting with SaltWire after Gaudet’s court docket look, Diamond defined that the 4 offenders believed that medication and cash have been contained in the protected, however neither have been discovered. The mixture-locked protected was later situated by police opened alongside Route 13 about one kilometre from the residence.
Jail sentences
The 4 offenders have drug habit points. Bryenton was sentenced on July 4 in provincial court docket in Charlottetown to 13 months in jail minus 204 days of enhanced credit score for time already served in custody. Beaton and Fairhurst have been sentenced on July 19 in provincial court docket. Regardless that Beaton was solely the motive force, she nonetheless pleaded responsible to being a celebration to the offence of forcible entry and was sentenced to eight months in jail.
The sentences for Bryenton, Gaudet and Beaton mirrored their prior prison data and stage of involvement within the offence.
Olivia Fairhurst didn’t have a previous prison file, however given her position within the offence, she acquired a nine-month jail sentence. The sentences for Olivia Fairhurst and Beaton have been joint suggestions from Diamond and legal-aid lawyer, Trish Cheverie, that have been accepted by Choose Nancy Orr.
Beaton and Fairhurst have been every given 227 days of enhanced credit score for time already served deducted from their jail sentences. The offenders have been additionally every sentenced to 2 years of probation.
Bryenton and Beaton, and Gaudet and Fairhurst, have been in relationships on the time of the offence. Each girls indicated in court docket that they wished nothing extra to do with their former companions.
Terrence McEachern is a justice reporter with SaltWire in Prince Edward Island. He could be reached by electronic mail at [email protected] and could be adopted on Twitter @terry_mcn.
