A Victoria man has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 15 years for shooting and killing a man during a botched home invasion.
In 2010, when Andrew Jonathan Belcourt was 19, he and an accomplice broke into the Pembroke Street apartment of Leslie Hankel -- a 52 year old schizophrenic who lived alone. They were wearing masks and Belcourt had a shotgun.
The court was told the intruders intended to rob Henkel of a large amount of marijuana, but there was only a little.
Belcourt maintains the shotgun went off accidentally. Henkel was shot in the neck and face, dying almost instantly.
During the initial trial Belcourt was found guilty, but successfully appealed in 2012. But last February he was found guilty of second-degree murder.
Belcourt has expressed remorse for what happened.