Given credit for the time Robert Mills has already spent in custody, he will spend a further 796 days in jail for aggravated assault in connection with the attack on the 21-year-old man. Mills was sentenced to six months in prison for assault with a weapon and three months for possessing a weapon, to run concurrent to the aggravated assault sentence.
The Crown was asking for a sentence of between five to seven years while Mills’ defence argued two years was adequate.
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The victim was attacked after attempting to get people to leave a party a younger relative was having at the home in March 2016. He was beaten and stabbed several times, according to the province's chief medical examiner, who said the young man lost three litres of blood and could have died.
Mills had admitted to using brass knuckles to beat the victim, and there’s no evidence he was responsible for the stabbing. A knife bearing the victim's DNA was recovered near the scene.
Mills wasn’t the only one charged in connection with the attack: four teenagers, who can’t be named because of their ages, have pleaded not guilty to aggravated assault charges.
