The sentencing process is underway for the second of a group of four people charged in a Belleville murder.

Twenty-nine-year-old Rylie Brissette of Saskatoon died after being shot on September 18, 2023 on North Front Street near Ridley Street.

Robert Holgate, a Belleville man who was 47 at the time of his arrest last year, appeared in a Belleville courtroom on Friday as part of sentencing, after pleading guilty to a charge of manslaughter.

The Crown is seeking a sentence of four years in prison, minus time served. The defence claims that no further incarceration is needed, requesting a suspended sentence with time served.

In an agreed-upon statement of facts, it was stated that Holgate’s involvement in the killing of Brissette was to arrange a meeting between the victim and another acc

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