Canada

A Calgary drug dealer who instigated an attack that led to a beating, fatal fentanyl shot and dismemberment of a young man was handed an eight-year prison sentence Friday.

Originally charged with second-degree murder in the April 2022 death of Keanan Crane, Darren Bulldog pleaded guilty to manslaughter last month after negotiations between defence lawyer Anna Konye and prosecutors Aaron Rankin and Britta Kristensen.

Crane was fatally attacked on April 7, 2022. Parts of his dismembered body were found a month later on the Mînî Thnî First Nation, formerly known as Morley.

"It's senseless and incomprehensible to understand how somebody, even with the prospects of wanting to enforce a drug debt ... would resort to employing individuals … to administer a beating and a lethal injection of fentanyl," said (Court of King's Bench Justice David) Labrenz.