Alex Willness has been sentenced to five years in prison after he was found guilty of manslaughter in the death of an Abbotsford police officer in Nelson in 2020.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Lindsay Lyster handed down the sentence on Jan. 11 in Nelson. She subtracted 403 days of time already served and added a lifetime firearms prohibition.
On July 16, 2020, Willness, 25 at the time, hit Const.