Armstrong woman sentenced to 10 years for killing common-law partner; family gets closure [Video]

An Armstrong, B.C., woman admitted Tuesday that she fatally shot her common-law partner nearly four years ago.

Lynda Saundry, 62, killed Barry Jones, 55, in their shared home near Armstrong on July 29, 2020. This week when she pleaded guilty to the charge of manslaughter, she put an end to a trial set to carry on for two weeks.

According to the agreed statement of fact, Saundry and Jones had broken up months before the fatal shooting and lived in separate bedrooms.

On the night Jones was killed, they got into an argument and then she shot him three times with a Winchester firearm,  Crown counsel Mallory Treddenick said.

The first two shots weren’t made with the intent to kill, Treddenick said. The first bullet went into one of Jones’s legs, another went through his torso and the third shot, fired by accident, was fatal.

That bullet left the gun barrel …