NORTH BATTLEFORD - A sentence has finally been imposed in the manslaughter case involving Keenan Mirasty.
In provincial court in North Battleford on Friday afternoon, Judge Dan O’Hanlon handed down a ten year sentence to Mirasty in connection to the March 8, 2020 manslaughter death of Sequin Mooswa, 22, in her apartment in North Battleford .
Mirasty will receive credit for three years and three months in custody for his time in remand, meaning he has six years and nine months left to serve. A DNA order and firearms prohibition for life were also imposed.
The sentence was imposed following final arguments on the length presented by counsel Friday. The Crown maintained their position that the sentence should be at the higher end of the range of between ten to 12 years, while the defence called for a sentence of a little over five years.
In the end Judge O’Hanlon’s sentence was on the higher end of the range. In imposing sentence O’Hanlon said he took into account Mirasty’s time in custody and youthful age, but also the youthful age of the victim.
O’Hanlon described Mirasty’s assault of Mooswa as “extensive” and “brutal” and the injuries to Mooswa, as shown in photographs entered as evidence, as “disturbing.”
Mirasty appeared by video for the sentencing. Members of Mooswa’s family were in attendance and were emotional in court as the judge imposed sentence, showing displeasure that the sentence imposed on Mirasty was not longer.
In speaking to reporters afterwards Crown Prosecutor Brittany Goodman simply said “justice was done.”
The decision Friday wraps up a long and protracted sentencing of Mirasty going back to last year. Mirasty had entered a guilty plea to manslaughter in October 2020, and sentencing submissions were heard in August, 2021, but a full sentencing hearing was eventually held in March to settle the issue of whether Mooswa had sustained a second beating on the morning of March 8, 2020, an issue that would have impacted the length of sentence. Judge O’Hanlon ultimately determined that a second assault did take place.
