Sentencing date set for Denzel Bird
LETHBRIDGE – A sentencing decision is anticipated on June 15, in the aggravated sexual assault case of Denzel Dre Colton Bird.
The date for a verdict was scheduled Friday morning, April 20, following sentencing submissions earlier this month, in which the Crown prosecutor recommended a term of 20-years in prison for Bird, while the defence suggested a prison sentence of up to eight years.
Bird pleaded guilty last September admitting that he randomly attacked a 25-year-old woman as she walked to work on the morning of Sept. 30, 2016.
Through an agreed statement of facts, it was revealed that after the woman walked by Bird, he approached her from behind and struck her in the head with a metal pipe. She fell to the ground, where the Crown believes she hit her face on the pavement. Bird then dragged her into an alley, removed some of her clothing and sexually assaulted her, noting that he knew he had hurt his victim badly. He then tried to put the victim into a garbage bin that he tipped on its side, tossed her clothing beside a fence and the pipe into someone’s front yard.