Man Goes to Jail for Home Invasion

Man Goes to Jail for Home Invasion

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at 14:22

A home invasion involving a crossbow, handgun, baseball bat, and knife, has resulted in almost seven years in jail for a Moosomin First Nation man.

Judge Violet Meekma handed down that sentence yesterday, after 31-year-old William Lee Wright pleaded guilty to six charges.

Wright entered those pleas in the middle of a trial in North Battleford Provincial Court. It was originally scheduled to last three days.

Wright pleaded guilty to break and enter to cause aggravated assault, uttering threats to cause death, three counts of common assault, and breach of a conditional sentence order.

Witnesses said Wright and several other unidentified burst into the home in the early evening. They were searching for a couple of men.

The Crown said the home invasion was in retaliation for an attempted attack earlier in the year.