An Ottawa man has been sentenced nearly 10 years after a Port Coquitlam man was found near death in a Pitt Meadows ditch.
Maly Morn was at B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster last week, where he was sentenced to eight years in prison for the death of 28-year-old Justin Aaron Yusko.
On the evening of Jan. 29, 2008, Yusko waved down a passing motorist as he lay in a ditch on the side of Ford Road, near Pitt Meadows Regional Airport. He had been stabbed and later died in hospital.
It would be another six years before a suspect was arrested in Yusko's murder. In December 2013, the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team announced that Morn, believed to be a drug trade associate of Yusko's, was arrested when he returned from Ottawa to the Lower Mainland.
Morn, 34, was initially charged with kidnapping and first-degree murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter. He received credit for time spent in pre-trial custody and will serve another four years and eight months.
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