A man has been sentenced for his role in a bar fight that left a Yorkton man paralyzed.
Kim Madsen was sentenced Friday to three years and four months in prison. A judge also ordered that Madsen receive anger management and alcohol rehabilitation as part of the sentence.
Madsen showed no emotion when the sentence was handed down. He was earlier found guilty of aggravated assault in the December 2015 fight that left Dennis Peepeetch paralyzed.
The trial heard that Peepeetch will be bound to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
Peepeetch’s mother expressed disappointment with the length of the sentence.
"I'm very saddened by the outcome. my son has to serve a life sentence. He's only in his early 40s and he has to live like this for the rest of his life, confined to a bed 22 hours a day,” Vicky Wapemoose said outside court.
“Within a year and half, two years, Kim Madsen will be free to live his life. He'll be able to work. He'll be able to have a family. What does my son have?"
