Bradley Barton, the Ontario trucker guilty of killing a woman in his Edmonton hotel room a decade ago, was sentenced Tuesday to 12.5 years behind bars.
Barton was convicted in February in the manslaughter of Cindy Gladue, a 36-year-old Métis and Cree woman, who died in his room at the Yellowhead Inn in June 2011.
His sentence was handed down in Edmonton by Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Stephen Hillier.
Barton will get credit for time served in the Edmonton Remand Centre, reducing his 12.5 year sentence to 11 years and 204 days.
Barton’s trial heard that Gladue had four times the legal limit of alcohol in her system and bled to death from a severe wound in her vagina.
The Crown had asked that Barton be sentenced to 18 to 20 years in prison, listed on the national sex offenders registry and banned for life from owning restricted firearms.
The defence argued for a five- to nine-year sentence for Barton because the trucker did not foresee Gladue’s death.
It was the second trial for Barton.
A jury found him not guilty in 2015 of first-degree murder, which sparked rallies and calls for justice for Indigenous women.
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