Posted on 07/04/2023 1:00:02 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
A woman who pleaded guilty to setting fires in forested areas around Kamloops in the middle of fire season last year will learn her fate in the next few months.
Kamloops provincial court Judge Roy Dickey has set Sept. 18 as the date to render a decision on sentencing, according to court records.
Angela Cornish, 42, has pleaded guilty to a pair of arsons in the Lac Le June area on May 8 and May 11 of 2022.
Police had been following Cornish after receiving tips on a number of fires they had been investigating in the Lac Le Jeune, Pinantan Lake and Monte Lake areas.
During their surveillance, police had to call in the BC Wildfire Service, which found and extinguished multiple spot fires. On May 11, 2022, when officers pulled over Cornish as she left the scene of one fire in a truck, she was found with a cache of fire-starting fuels: hand sanitizer, butane, charcoal, fire starter packages, hairspray and lighters. She served 20 days in jail before being granted bail.
Court heard Cornish’s fire-setting desire was influenced by mental illness or withdrawal from the medication dexedrine, which is used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Her lawyer, Lana Walker, said Cornish was lighting fires for personal healing and growth and had no malice in her actions.
Cornish’s defence counsel and the Crown submitted a joint submission on sentencing that requests Dickey hand down a six-month conditional sentence order and a year of probation. She would serve the first three months under house arrest, followed by three months of a curfew. She would also be bound by various restrictions keeping her out of the backcountry, parks and protected grasslands.
Cornish is free on bail under similar conditions enforced by an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet.
If turdough had a daughter.
Might be still related, through the Castro line.
Give her a nice slow painful death!
The fact that millions across the continent will contract serious illnesses from PM2.5 and VOCs (or lose family members that do) largely due to the work of woodland arsonists, makes sarcasm awkward.
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