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Acquittal overturned of Prince Albert woman found not guilty of manslaughter

The Court of Appeal has overturned a decision that found Tasia Natewayes not guilty of manslaughter.

The 29-year-old was on trial in Prince Albert, Sask. in April 2015 in connection with the 2012 death of 18-year-old Dakota Nayneecassum. At the time the judge only found her guilty of breaking and entering with the intention of committing an indictable offence.

Nayneecassum died from a stab wound that pierced his heart and lung.

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The court allowed the Crown's appeal, which contended that Natewayes is guilty of manslaughter on the basis of aiding those who did cause Nayneecassum's death.

The Court of Appeal wrote, "A person may be convicted of being a party to manslaughter when he or she aids another person in the commission of a dangerous unlawful act where a reasonable person in all of the circumstances would have appreciated that bodily harm was the foreseeable consequence of the unlawful act."

This matter is now remitted to the trial judge for sentencing.

Natewayes was the only person out of six charged in Nayneecassum's death to plead not guilty.