A Chetwynd man was sentenced Monday to life in prison with no chance of parole for 10 years for the second degree murder of a woman from the same community in 2008
Patrick Sean Richmond was issued the sentence in a B.C. Supreme Court hearing in Dawson Creek, slightly more than three years after the body of Annie Lenore Davis, 46, was found in the vicinity of Jackfish Lake Road.
Forensic evidence indicated her death occurred on April 20, 2008 but her body was not found until May 6, 2008. Davis, described at the time as aboriginal, four-feet 10-inches tall and weighing 98 pounds, was last seen alive on April 16, 2008.
Following a 14-month investigation, Richmond, who still resided in Chetwynd, was arrested in Surrey.
Jackfish Lake Road is an offshoot of Highway 29, which stretches from Chetwynd to Fort St. John via Moberly Lake and Hudson's Hope.
Prior to the incident, it had been more than a decade since there had been a homicide in the town of 3,000 people 306 kilometres north of Prince George. In 1996, resident Lonny Benson was killed at a house party and a young offender was convicted of manslaughter in the case.
