Final Tiny House Warrior sentence - Kamloops This Week

2022-07-07 16:51:43 By : Mr. Amy Wang

The last of three members of the Tiny House Warriors charged in connection with crashing a closed-door meeting on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project at Thompson Rivers University in 2018 has been sentenced in Kamloops provincial court.

Isha Jules was given an absolute discharge on June 29, having earlier this year been found guilty of causing a disturbance and mischief for spilling red paint on the campus. Jules was acquitted of on two counts of assault.

An absolute discharge is the lowest level sentence in which, while a finding of guilt is made, no conviction is registered, nor does any probation come into effect.

Jules, alongside Nicole Manuel and Chantel Manuel, stood trial in May 2021 on counts of mischief, causing a disturbance and assault in connection with the Dec. 10, 2018, incident. The trio was part of a group of protesters that deliberately spilled red paint outside the university’s Campus Activity Centre before storming the doors to the Grand Hall inside the building, where representatives from Natural Resources Canada and Trans Mountain were meeting with First Nations leadership under the guidance of former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Frank Iacobucci.

In January, Judge Stella Frame handed down rulings on the myriad charges, rendering some guilty verdicts and some acquittals.

In March, Nicole Manuel was sentenced to 12 months’ probation on convictions of causing a disturbance, mischief in relation to spilling the paint at the CAC and assaulting a Trans Mountain security guard in the skirmish to enter the Grand Hall.

In May, Chantel Manuel was sentenced to 12 months’ probation on two counts of assault and causing a disturbance, but had previously been acquitted of the mischief charge.

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