Criminal Code, section 236
Manslaughter
What the law says
- Maximum
- Life imprisonment
- Mandatory minimum
- No mandatory minimum
- Kind of offence
- Violent, causing death
No minimum unless a firearm is used: MMP of 4 years when a firearm is used (s.236(a)); see "Manslaughter with a firearm". S.C. 2026, c. 19 added s.236(2): court must consider life if coercive control, exploitation, sexual or hate-motivated.
61 cases with this offence
- September 15, 20262 years and 99 days in custody, less 99 days credit (2 years remaining)
- August 28, 2026R. v. Short, 2026 BCSC 1903
- Below the Crown's ask
7.5 years in custody, less 693 days credit for pre-sentence custody - August 4, 2026R. v. Julian, 2026 NSSC 261
- Below the Crown's ask
- On release at the time
7 years in custody, less 1364 days' credit for remand (1191 days remaining) - July 27, 2026R. v. Dyck, 2026 BCSC 1477
- Below the Crown's ask
Four and a half years' imprisonment - July 10, 202610 years imprisonment less 1,130 days pre-sentence credit; 82 months going forward
- June 12, 20266 years in custody, less 75 days credit for pre-sentence custody
- May 12, 2026R. v. K.B.R.M., 2026 BCSC 1127
- Below the Crown's ask
8 years in custody, less 4 years, 7 months and 12 days of credit for pre-sentence custody (3 years, 4 months and 18 days remaining) - May 1, 20262 years imprisonment
- May 1, 20269 years in custody, less 1,526 days credit for remand
- April 24, 2026R. v. Levy, 2026 NSSC 129
- Below the Crown's ask
4 years custody for manslaughter; criminal negligence causing death conditionally stayed - April 23, 20266 years in custody, less 885 days credit for pre-sentence custody
- April 2, 202610 years in prison
- April 1, 202615 years on each count concurrent, deemed served by remand and time served on overturned sentences
- March 5, 202610 and a half years' imprisonment (8 years manslaughter, plus consecutive weapons sentences), less 930 days' credit
- January 9, 2026R. v. Morgan, 2026 BCSC 94
- On release at the time
1 day in jail, served by presence in court - December 18, 2025R. v. Losch, 2025 BCSC 2591
- Below the Crown's ask
10 years for manslaughter plus 2 years consecutive for interfering with human remains (12 years total), less 1,280 days credit - December 8, 2025R. v. K.G.B., 2025 BCSC 2574
- Below the Crown's ask
5 years in custody, less 560 days credit (373 days at 1.5:1) - August 25, 202511 years' imprisonment (9 years for manslaughter plus 2 years consecutive as accessory after the fact), less 443 days' credit; lifetime firearms prohibition
- July 24, 2025R. v. Scott, 2025 BCSC 1495
- Below the Crown's ask
6 years' imprisonment less credit for pre-sentence custody (539 days left to serve), then 3 years' probation - June 16, 202514 years' imprisonment, less 1,704 days' credit (3,406 days remaining)
- May 14, 202515 years in custody, less about 1,705 days credit (four years and nine months)
- February 19, 2025Eight years in a federal penitentiary
- December 20, 2024R. v. MacDonald, 2024 NSSC 423
- Below the Crown's ask
9 years, less credit of 7 years, 8 months, 10 days for pre-sentence custody - December 12, 2024R. v. Evong, 2024 NSSC 392
- Below the Crown's ask
12 years reduced to 9 years and 9 months for the guilty plea, less 2,792 days' remand credit - December 12, 2024Dangerous offender: 11 years (4,015 days) less 2,130 days credit, 2 years concurrent, then 10-year long-term supervision order
Judges who sentenced this offence
- The Honourable Justice Martha M. Devlin
- The Honourable Justice Patrick J. Duncan
- The Honourable Justice E. David Crossin
- The Honourable Justice Kathleen M. Ker
- The Honourable Justice S. Dev Dley
- The Honourable Justice Warren B. Milman
- The Honourable Justice Alison J. Beames
- The Honourable Justice Andrew P. A. Mayer
- The Honourable Justice Catherine Murray
- The Honourable Justice Christa M. Brothers
- The Honourable Justice Eric V. Gottardi
- The Honourable Justice Joshua M. Arnold
- The Honourable Justice Michael Tammen
- The Honourable Justice Ronald S. Tindale
- The Honourable Justice Sheri A. Donegan
- The Honourable Justice Andrew Majawa
- The Honourable Justice Brenda Brown
- The Honourable Justice David M. Layton
- The Honourable Justice Douglas W. Thompson
- The Honourable Justice Edlyn Laurie
- The Honourable Justice Frits E. Verhoeven
- The Honourable Justice Gary P. Weatherill
- The Honourable Justice George Macintosh
- The Honourable Justice Heather J. Holmes
- The Honourable Justice James L. Chipman
- The Honourable Justice Jamie S. Campbell
- The Honourable Justice Jeffrey R. Hunt
- The Honourable Justice John A. Keith
- The Honourable Justice John P. Bodurtha
- The Honourable Justice Lindsay M. Lyster