Man to spend five more years in jail over 2015 killing of miner

Leonard Fredericks

Leonard Fredericks will be spending just over the next five years behind bars for the 2015 killing of sixty-five-year-old miner Peter James, who he stabbed about the body during an argument in a liquor bar.

Back in April, Fredericks pleaded guilty to unlawfully killing James on December 30th, 2015.

He had been originally indicted for murder, but pleaded to the lesser offence of manslaughter during his arraignment.