Manslaughter plea negotiated in 2008 killing of cocaine dealer

Manslaughter plea negotiated in 2008 killing of cocaine dealer: "northern Alberta man pleaded guilty Wednesday to manslaughter for the 2008 killing of his drug dealer.
On the advice of his lawyer, Anthony Shilmar had earlier led RCMP to a remote area near Little Smokey River where he buried a house trailer with the remains of Jeffrey Dykuizen inside. He advised them on how to dig it up using heavy equipment.
Shilmar was originally charged with first-degree murder. But under an agreement with the Crown, he pleaded guilty Wednesday to manslaughter and performing an indignity to a human body.
In an agreed statement of facts, court heard that in May 2008, Dykuizen and Shilmar had agreed the drug dealer could live in a trailer on the accused’s rural property near Fox Creek in exchange for cocaine. The arrangement had been made about a month prior to May 3, the day Dykuizen was killed.
Court heard that in the hours leading up to the death, Shilmar had “repeatedly and heavily ingested cocaine supplied by the deceased.”
That same day, Shilmar discovered Dykuizen had chained Deryk Law up in the trailer and beaten him with a hammer and a gun because he owed a $200,000 drug debt."

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