A8 Comox Valley Echo Friday, July 18, 2014
News
Man who killed hospital volunteer gets another year for assault The man who killed hospital volunteer Phyllis Hards in 2006 was sentenced to another year of prison for attacking a St. Joseph’s General Hospital employee. Judge Rod Sutton gave Dale Huttunen credit for 72 days spent in custody after he threw a table at one of the nursing staff members in the psychiatric unit, punched and tried to kick her April 28. The incident took place just after Huttunen learned his application to have the mental health order which forced him into the psych ward had
rent sentencing for assault with a weapon in Courtenay Provincial Court July 10. Leaving the man in the community would pose a “significant risk” and would likely mean more external orders and incarceration, the Crown noted. Defence lawyer Eric Chesterley said his client meant to throw a table in the direction of the St. Joseph’s worker and did not mean to hit her with it. The attack was the result of a “fairly severe” mental disability, relaying some of how the man feels about pills to the court. “He doesn’t feel the medications
In that case Huttunen said he decided to cause a scene in order to receive medical attention for a hernia. He ran through the halls and punched 78-year-old Phyllis Hards, who managed the Campbell River Hospital gift shop and had been volunteering with the hospital for a long time. She died not long after from a tear in her main artery, the aorta. Island hospital auxiliaries donated a bench to the Campbell River Hospital garden in Hards’ honour. Huttunen’s conviction for manslaughter earned him six years in jail, and was factored into the cur-
been denied at 11:45 a.m. “Will I be charged?” he asked immediately after the assault. “This happened when Mr. Huttunen was under the Mental Health Act,” said Crown prosecutor John Boccabella. “He wanted to be charged with assault.” Huttunen had stopped taking his medication and had been threatening to go to the media to claim medical staff had been rough with him, although the Crown noted no evidence had come to light to back this up. Boccabella said the current assault bears striking similarities to a fatal assault seven years ago.
By Drew A. Penner Echo Staff
do anything for him,” he said, adding if everything goes right this time his client can get over this, although he admitted that outcome is “perhaps optimistic.” The sentencing decision was the result of a joint submission from the Crown and the defence. Huttunen will be on probation for three years after his release and won’t be allowed to have a firearm for five years. He was ordered to submit his DNA to an official database and must pay a victim surcharge of $200 by Sept 2015. —With files from Glacier Media
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(L-R) As the hot mid-day sun shone down Duncan Harvey, Ben Swing and Austin Brown beat the heat by dropping into 7-Eleven for Free Slurpee Day July 11. Photo by Drew A. Penner
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