WARNING: This story contains graphic images of injuries.

After learning the man who killed their loved one would not go to jail, several of Ryden Brogden’s family members stormed out of the courtroom.

On Wednesday, a Calgary judge announced John Sproule would serve a conditional sentence order involving two years of house arrest.

Originally charged with second-degree murder, 23-year-old Sproule was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury earlier this year for fatally stabbing Brogden while outside a Banff bar in September 2022.

But it was Brogden, 27, who first attacked Sproule when he pushed and sucker punched the then-20-year-old and continued the assault by punching and rag-dolling the younger man down the street.

John Sproule suffered a number of injuries during the altercation wit

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