Shockingly light sentence for man who pushed his girlfriend down the stairs and dumped dead body in the woods

A Canadian antheral who pushed his woman down the stairs earlier dropping her dormant assemblage disconnected successful the woods and lighting her location connected occurrence received a shockingly airy condemnation for his crimes. 

Philip Toner, 44, was convicted of aggravated battle connected Monday and sentenced to 8 years for his relation successful 35-year-old Brenda Ware's 2021 decease aft helium pleaded guilty. 

Toner, who was primitively charged with second-degree murder, was granted clip served, leaving lone 2 years and 9 months near connected his sentence, according to CBC. 

The execution complaint was dropped aft the aesculapian examiner couldn't find Ware's origin of decease arsenic her assemblage was recovered successful a wooded country with a bear. 

Toner had near her assemblage successful the woods aft loading it into his Jeep and mounting respective fires successful her home, which the Crown said was to conceal evidence, according to CBC. 

Ware and Toner had gotten into an statement wrong her Sundre location connected May 5, 2021, and helium admitted to constabulary that helium deed her and caused her to autumn down a formation of stairs, wherever she landed unconscious. 

He aboriginal fell dormant beside her and erstwhile helium woke up, helium recovered his woman dead, according to CBC. 

Toner attempted thorax compressions, according to Rocky Mountain Outlook. He did not question aesculapian assistance. 

He past loaded her up assemblage up successful his car and drove to British Columbia. Toner yet grew bushed and slept adjacent Highway 93. 

Toner's car was stuck erstwhile helium woke up and helium dragged her assemblage much than 160 feet into the woods earlier walking to a adjacent town. 

'Mr. Toner yet walked retired of the location with a assemblage and past had to pain it to screen up a transgression scene,' Prosecutor Ryan Seifried told the court. 

Her assemblage was recovered with blunt unit trauma to her caput and ribs and she had a fig of sharp-force injuries, according to the aesculapian examiner. 

She ever besides discovered by a bear, and the aesculapian examiner was incapable to find what harm the carnivore caused and what Toner did, according to CBC. 

When Toner discovered his ex's assemblage had been discover, helium hitchhiked to Lake Country successful British Columbia, wherever helium was arrested. 

The vocation transgression has been convicted of a bid of convulsive crimes successful the past, including 5 assault-type convictions, intersexual assault, and uttering threats, according to CBC. 

Ware's father, Don, remembers his girl arsenic 'my small bundle of joy' and said helium was 'lost and lonely' since her passing. 

'I look retired the model waiting for her,' his unfortunate interaction connection read, according to CBC. 'My small helper astir the workplace is gone.' 

Her mother, Karla, expressed akin statements successful her interaction connection and expressed feeling despair and loneliness without her daughter. She besides said it felt similar her daughter's 'life was being erased' aft Toner acceptable occurrence to her home. 

Her parents had been the 1 to observe her missing aft she didn't amusement up to work. When they arrived to her farmhouse, they discovered it connected prosecute and her missing.  

Toner blamed drugs for his determination to harm Ware and called her a 'fantastic quality being,' according to CBC. 

Just a specified six weeks earlier her death, Toner had finished serving a five-year condemnation for drugging and raping a 15-year-old miss successful 2015, according to CBC. 

Between 2019 and 2020, Toner had been released from situation 3 times and reoffended for issues each involving women, drugs, and violence, according to the outlet.