An Nunavut judge has sentenced a Clyde River man to one day in custody for biting off most of his neighbour’s right ear.

Mac Kyak had already been in jail 165 days when he pleaded guilty to the aggravated assault of Joshua Qaqasiq this past April 6. With enhanced credit being assigned to his remand time at the rate of 1.5 to 1, Kyak had served the equivalent of 248 days in custody by the time he wound up in the Nunavut Court of Justice for sentencing.

“I find that further incarceration of Mr. Kyak would inappropriately emphasize deterrence and denunciation over the principles of restraint and rehabilitation,” Justice Mark Mossey wrote in a recent decision out of Iqaluit.

“Mr. Kyak is young, has sworn off drinking, and will re-enter society today with the ability to choose a path forward

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