A Belledune Man Gets 10 years in Prison for the Attempted Murders of Two Children

A Belledune, N.B. man appeared in Campbellton Provincial Court Monday and was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the attempted murders of two children.

According to poilce, on December 8, 2015, the 46-year-old man was charged with two counts of attempted murder and two counts of administering a noxious thing. There is a court-imposed publication ban on the identities of the man and the children.

On February 17, 2016, the man pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted murder. The charges of administering a noxious thing were withdrawn, said the RCMP.

The investigation began on November 3, 2015, following a single-vehicle crash in Blackland, where a vehicle went off the road.

All three occupants, the man driving the vehicle and two children under the age of 12 who were related to the man, were taken to hospital. The children were later transferred to the IWK Hospital in Halifax, when it had been determined that they had been given a noxious substance. They were treated and later released. The man had remained in the hospital until he was arrested on December 7.