MEADOW LAKE – Sentencing for a man accused of killing a Flying Dust First Nation man didn’t occur June 24 and instead it was quietly moved ahead to June 16.
Thirty-two-year-old Conrad Joseph Jay Merasty of Flying Dust First Nation was sentenced in Meadow Lake Provincial Court to life in prison with no parole for 12 years in the death of 43-year-old Kenneth Merasty.
Conrad Merasty was also given a lifetime firearms ban and ordered to provide his DNA to the National DNA Data Bank.
Lucy Annelle Whitecap of Nipawin was sentenced June 2 in Meadow Lake Provincial Court to eight years in prison. Whitecap was charged with second-degree murder but pleaded guilty in May to the lesser charge of manslaughter in a joint submission by the Crown and defence. Whitecap was also banned from owning firearms for life and ordered to provide her DNA to the National DNA Data Bank.
Whitecap and Conrad Merasty were charged with Kenneth Merasty’s death after Meadow Lake RCMP responded to a report of a stabbing in a home on Deer Street in Flying Dust Frist Nation Feb. 9, 2021. Kenneth Merasty was found suffering from serious injuries and he was pronounced deceased a short time later.
