A Brandon inmate received an 18-month sentence for taking part in a jailhouse beating.

“This was a terrible assault,” Judge Shauna Hewitt-Michta said during a sentencing hearing in Brandon provincial court on Monday. “Assaults that happen in a jailhouse setting … it’s not like people can run away or get away.”

Addison Laroque, 26, pleaded guilty to single counts of aggravated assault and assault causing bodily harm.

However, ahead of sentencing submissions, the Crown stayed the aggravated assault charge since Laroque didn’t touch one of the two victims. The Crown had previously accepted the guilty plea on the basis that Laroque was a party to the offence.

Prosecutor Yaso Mathu and defence lawyer Bob Harrison put forward a joint recommendation of 18 months of jail time.

Mathu outlined

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