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.