A B.C. man convicted of the “intentional and ruthless killing of a bystander” while acting as an enforcer in the drug trade has been sentenced for a second time in the slaying.
Hugh Alexander McIntosh will serve 17 years in prison for second-degree murder before he is eligible for parole, the judge ruled, noting that the Nov. 22 sentencing came after the successful appeal of a first-degree murder conviction earlier this year.
In 2019, the court heard, McIntosh and an associate went to the Kamloops home of a drug dealer – a woman identified as K.C. in the decision – who had recently been robbed of $20,000. While there, during a conflict with K.C. over the missing money, McIntosh killed K.C.’s housemate J.G. “execution style,” shooting him once in the back of the head, the court heard.
“J.G. was not part of the drug-trafficking enterprise,” Associate Chief Justice Heather H. Holmes wrote in her …