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RCMP escort Jason Will into a waiting prison van after receiving 7 years for the smothering death of a toddler. Photo taken in Regina on August 30, 2012.
Photograph by: Don Healy , Regina Leader-Post files
REGINA ? Jason Brian Emil Will, currently serving a seven-year prison sentence for smothering a toddler, is on a hunger strike, his family said on Thursday.
Members of Will?s family gathered to speak to reporters on Thursday morning at the law office of Bob Hrycan, the lawyer who is handling Will?s conviction and sentence appeal. They said the 25-year-old Regina man is protesting his manslaughter conviction as well as a Court of Appeal judge?s recent refusal to release him pending the appeal.
Will, currently incarcerated at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert, is into the 12th day of his hunger strike, family said.
Hrycan is anticipating filing an appeal of the bail decision within the next week and will ask that a hearing be held soon after to determine whether the Appeal Court judge?s decision should be overturned.
A date for the conviction and sentence appeal has yet to be set, but Hrycan expected it wouldn?t happen before spring.
Will was found guilty after trial at Regina Court of Queen?s Bench of suffocating his then-fiancee?s 18-month-old son, Raime Myers, in July 2009, causing a fatal hypoxic brain injury. Will and his family continue to claim he?s not guilty.
The Crown has also filed an appeal in this case, asking that the sentence be upped. The Crown had initially been looking for a 10-year prison term.
hpolischuk@leaderpost.com
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