Regina man pleads guilty to manslaughter in womans death [Video]

A Regina man who was charged in connection to a woman’s death in August pleaded guilty to manslaughter in front of a judge on Friday.

Kristopher Kyle Soby was facing a single count of second-degree murder after Amber Dawn Robson was found dead on the evening of Aug. 23.

Officers with the Regina Police Service (RPS) were called to a home on the 1000 block of King Street, where they discovered Robson unresponsive at the scene. She was pronounced dead by EMS and Soby was arrested at the scene.

A death investigation began immediately after the incident, with RPS concluding that Robson’s death was the result of a homicide, Regina’s fourth of 2024.

At the Court of King’s Bench on Friday, the Crown read from Soby’s agreed statement of facts, which was part of a plea deal to get Soby down from a murder charge to a manslaughter charge. Robson and Soby, who were dating at the …