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John Edward Collins pleaded responsible in December to second-degree homicide
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An Orillia man who battered fashionable Collingwood actual property agent Kinga ‘Kay’ Kriston with a golf membership earlier than strangling her to demise has been sentenced to life in jail with no probability of parole for 16 years.
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John Edward Collins — who was initially charged with first-degree homicide — pleaded responsible in December to second-degree homicide within the 2022 slaying of his 55-year-old former lover.
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CTV Information reported that Collins was sentenced on Tuesday in Barrie.
“We grew up collectively and I’ll all the time be proud to be her brother,” Kriston’s brother Tibor mentioned in his sufferer influence assertion. “I frequently expertise emotions of anger, unhappiness and loss, and don’t sleep effectively after studying the circumstances of this ugly crime.
“My life has modified ceaselessly by somebody I’ve by no means met.”
The connection between Collins and Kriston was rocky. He was a self-described alcoholic who was in rehab when he checked out to pursue Kriston.
At one level, she referred to as him a “loser.”
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Courtroom heard that Collins joined Kriston in mattress on June 4, 2022, in her Collingwood dwelling. She advised him he ought to suppose lengthy and arduous about a number of the issues he had mentioned to her. He took that as a menace that she was about to kick him out of her dwelling.
Then “he snapped” and battered her quite a few occasions with a golf membership.
Kriston had screamed and pleaded for her life as Collins struck her time and again.
Collins, 57, was drunk on the time and along with the assault with the golf membership, he punched her a number of occasions. The struggling couple fell to the ground, the place Collins strangled her to demise.
Following her homicide, Collins stayed in Kriston’s dwelling for 5 days earlier than a good friend of the lady’s did a welfare test. The good friend noticed the grisly scene and referred to as cops.
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When officers arrived, Collins was once more blasted and advised them he wished to go to jail and admitted that he was “completely responsible.”
He added: “I’ve misplaced my household, misplaced my children, and now I’ve murdered any person.”
In December, the courtroom heard sufferer influence statements from the sufferer’s household. Her former husband mentioned their daughter by no means had the chance to inform her mother she had been accepted to school.
“The assault on Ms. Kriston was significantly vicious,” Justice Michelle Fuerst mentioned, CTV reported, including that Collins knew he was “taking the lifetime of the mom of a teenaged youngster,” and “took steps to make sure she wouldn’t survive.”
As a part of his sentencing, the decide imposed a lifetime weapons ban towards Collins.
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