A Brantford man has been convicted of manslaughter for selling fentanyl-laced cocaine to a group of golfers five years ago.

Jeremy G. Folk sold the cocaine to one of the three golf buddies on June 13, 2020.

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All three had a bad reaction to the drug at a Grey Street home and one of them – Robert (Rob) Davies, 44 – died as a result.

“(Folk) committed the unlawful act of trafficking in a controlled substance,” said Justice Joseph R. Henderson, making his ruling. “The unlawful act presented an objectively foreseeable risk of bodily harm and the unlawful act was a legal cause of Rob’s death.”

Folk was committed to stand trial in 2023 but, despite efforts by the Crown’s office to move the case along, it got bogged down over an argument about whether a short conversation Fo

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