Dressed in her favourite colour pink, family and friends of Bailey McCourt packed a Kelowna, B.C., court room Monday afternoon to watch the man charged in her killing be sentenced on previous domestic violence-related charges of strangulation and uttering threats.

“It is not something we ever planned on doing,” said Shane McCourt, Bailey’s dad. “We don’t want any other family to go through this.”

James Plover was found guilty of the charges in July.

On Monday at the sentencing hearing, prosecution called for a 16- to 18-month jail sentence while defence asked for nine months.

A publication ban prevents the release the name of the victim in that 2024 incident.

Court, however, heard how Plover threatened to kill the victim and then proceeded to strangle them to the point of the vict

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