A man who stabbed two seniors and struck one of them with a bat in the midst of drug-induced hallucinations was sentenced to a pair of five-year prison sentences.
Anthony Rouskov Nielsen, 21, previously pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated assault in relation to a December 2021 incident in which a man and woman were stabbed numerous times and the woman hit with a bat in their Nanaimo home.
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