helping cover up her boyfriend's fatal stabbing lands calgary woman jail and probation
juliana bastine pleaded guilty last september to being an accessory after the fact to the aug. 4, 2021, fatal stabbing of her then-boyfriend, michael donald lloyd
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the exterior of the calgary courts centre was photographed on tuesday january 16, 2018.
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helping to cover up her boyfriend’s homicide in a “grotesque … treatment of a body” has landed a calgary woman jail and probation. justice nancy dilts on wednesday accepted a joint recommendation from crown prosecutor donna spaner and defence lawyer adriano iovinelli to sentence juliana bastine to two years’ incarceration.
but with credit for time already served on remand, bastine, 32, will only have one month left to serve.
she will also have to spend three years on restrictive probation which includes conditions she seek treatment for substance abuse and anger management.
the probationary period also includes a condition she abstain from alcohol and drug consumption.
despite iovinelli’s concession the terms of bastine’s probation are likely to lead her to fail, the mother-of-three vowed to turn her life around.
“i can’t go back and change time, but i can change myself,” she said, before dilts accepted the joint sentencing recommendation.
bastine pleaded guilty last september to being an accessory after the fact to the aug. 4, 2021, fatal stabbing of her then-boyfriend, michael donald lloyd.
bastine had locked lloyd out of her downtown calgary apartment suite and when he broke in he got into a fight with his friend, steven reader, and was fatally stabbed.
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lloyd, who had been out of town for several days, had sent reader to the residence to offer bastine support as she was trying to withdraw from alcohol and drugs at the time.
according to a statement of agreed facts read in by co-prosecutor william tran, lloyd began to bleed profusely after being stabbed by reader, who was earlier handed a nine-year sentence for manslaughter.
after being stabbed lloyd begged them for help, but bastine and reader ignored his pleas, tran said.
‘a grotesque treatment of a body’
later on lloyd’s body was placed in the bathtub and fans were set up to try to cover up the smell of his decaying body, which was discovered five days later when a tenant in the apartment below complained about what he believed was a “leak” from the unit above.
“as the building manager, and then the police, learned, the unwanted leakage was blood and bodily fluids from lloyd’s dead body,” tran told dilts.
spaner said one of the aggravating factors the court of king’s bench judge had to consider was the treatment of lloyd’s remains following the homicide.
“it was a grotesque scene, it was a grotesque treatment of a body,” spaner said.
she also said lloyd’s pleas for help were captured on a hallway cctv camera, footage viewed by the dead man’s parents.
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dilts, in sentencing bastine, noted the callousness she showed the victim.
“ms. bastine knew that mr. lloyd was bleeding heavily from that stabbing and she did nothing,” the judge said.
“instead, ms. bastine and mr. reader left mr. lloyd to die.”
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