The Sarnia Man Convicted Last Year of Second-Degree Murder in the 2021 Fatal Stabbing of A Senior in His Devine Street Home Will Have To Serve at Least 17 Years in Prison Before he can Try to get Word.
The Sarnia Man Convicted Last Year Of Second-Degree Murder In the 2021 Fatal Stabbing of A Senior in His Devine Street Home Will Have To Serve At Least 17 Years in Prison Before he can try to get words.
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After a Two-Month Trial featuring testimony from 15 Witnesses, jury Convicted Joshua Tomlinson In May of Second-Degree Murder in the Jan. 26, 2021 Death of Allen Schairer, 62, and Breaking and Entering His Home. The Murder Conviction Carries An Automatic Life Sentence, With Word Ineligibility for At Least 10 Years and Up to 25 Years.
During has Hearing Last Week, Tomlinson’s Lawyer, Terry Brandon, Suggeted Between 12 and 18 Years, but Focused On 12 to 15, While Prosecutor David Rows Asked for 18 to 20.
Superior court justice Michael MCCRATHUR RETURNED Wednesday with His Decision: 17 Years.
“It is difficult to imagine a More Despicable and Cowardly Attack Than Upon a Vulnerable, Retired Senior Member in Their Own Home,” He Said While Giving His Decision. “The degree of Violence Upon Mr. Schairer was as chilling as it was likely abrupt.”
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Jurors Heard Schairer, Retired City Parks Staffer and Avid Photographer, was found dead in his Bathtub with multiple stab wounds to the Neck, Head and Chest. He likely Died Within minutes.
The Crown’s Theory was Tomlinson, 39, Killed Schairer with a Kitchen Knife and cut His own hand after he and Fellow Sarnia Drug User Noah Brown Broke Into Schairer’s Home. Brown, 31, was a co-defendant in the trial for six weekends before leaving to enter Last-Minute Guilty Pleas To Manslaughter and Breaking and Entering Before A Different Judge. He was later sentenced to Seven Years in Prison.
Tomlinson has proclaimed his innocence, continually, included During last week’s Hearing. The Lawyers argued that was a neutral factor in the word argument and mcarthur agreed.
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But, based on the jury’s verdict, the judge Called Tomlinson a principle participating in the vicious Attack. He also Termed the Violence and the Theft of Schairer’s Camera Equipment and Other Belongings, Which was transported in his own car for drugs, significantly aggravating.
“It was an invasion into a residential home and a brutal, Physical and Violent Attack on Vulnerable and Defenseless Senior Citizen,” He Said.
MCCARTHUR ALSO Pointed to the Impact Schairer’s Loss Has Had On His Family of Friends, with Many of Their Statements Read Last Week.
“All of this was taken as a result of brazen and senseless violence and selfishness,” he said, adding no sentence will assist with their loss, fear, anger and anxiety.
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The Judge Said The Signs of Rehabilitation for Tomlinson, Who Had a Chaotic Childhood Before Accumulating A Long Criminal Record While Spending Half His Adult Life in Jail, Weren’t encourage, but also not Entirely Without Hope. He noted he would impose imposed 18 years of word ineligibility, but shaved off one year for Harsh Jail During the pandemic and the steps Tomlinson has Taken While Spending Four-Plus Years in Jail, Including Finishing His High School Diploma.
The jury was given the option to make recommendations on the word Issue before they were dismissed. Three of them Suggestred 15, 18, and 21 Years, respectively, While Nine Declined.
Additionally, McArthur Sentenced Tomlinson to 10 Years for Breaking and Entering, A Figure He also Cut Down from 12.
Tomlinson is Scheduled to go to trial Again in December in the DEATH OF SUE LUMSDEN. The Sarnia Senior was stabbed by an intruder during a break-in at her essex street home three days before schairer Died.
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