A drug-addicted prostitute with a history of stabbing people who was once described as “downright evil” should be sentenced to 14 years in prison for killing an Ottawa chef she had just met, a prosecutor argued Monday.
But Jennifer Bird’s lawyer, Jeff Langevin, argued his 28-year-old client should receive a further five year sentence for manslaughter, suggesting that stabbing-victim Simon Hubbard’s decision to bring a crack-addicted sex trade worker with a propensity for violence back to his apartment in the middle of the night carried some risk.
And while there was absolutely no evidence to suggest Hubbard had done anything to deserve his fate, Bird took the opportunity she was given to apologize to the family, and to suggest the deadly stabbing was a “horrible accident” and a fearful reaction brought on by a life lived in the sex trade.
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