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By Aaron Schulze

Man Sentenced For Manslaughter

Kamloops man sentenced to three years in jail for 2020 downtown stabbing death

Nov 8, 2023 | 10:03 AM

KAMLOOPS — A man was sentenced to just over three years in jail for a 2020 killing in downtown Kamloops.

James Dylan Sanford was sentenced in B.C. Supreme Court at the Kamloops Law Courts Tuesday (Nov. 7). He was given 1,139 days in jail and a 10-year firearm prohibition.

Following a trial in January 2023, a jury found Sanford guilty of manslaughter in the September 2020 stabbing death of 33-year-old Daniel Thomas Myles near Canada’s Best Value Inn and Suites in the 1300-block of Columbia Street. Sanford was originally charged with second degree murder.

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At the time, Kamloops RCMP Plain Clothes Commander S/Sgt. Simon Pillay said Myles’ death followed an ongoing conflict. He said Myles had criminal charges before the courts and was on pre-trial release, with one of his conditions being not to attend the Canada’s Best Value Inn and Suites in downtown Kamloops.

Pillay said Sanford and Myles were known to police.