NEWS FILE PHOTO The Medicine Hat Court of Queen's Bench is shown in this undated photo. Aaron R. Anand-Ford, charged with second-degree murder in the death of Dustin Hewer on Nov. 5, 2016, was found guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019.
A man accused in the stabbing death of 24-year-old Dustin Hewer has been found not guilty of second-degree murder. Instead the jury found him guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter.
Aaron Anand-Ford stabbed Hewer 13 times on November 5, 2016, after the victim charged at his friend with a baseball bat.
The jury reached it’s verdict Thursday evening.
Counsel for Anand-Ford had argued he was acting in defence of his friend and didn’t intend to kill Hewer.
Sentencing is scheduled for March 15.
