Man faces sentencing for ‘campaign of terror’ role

The fate of an Edmonton drug dealer’s accomplice in a “campaign of terror” against two 16-year-old girls is now in a judge’s hands.

The Crown is seeking a further six-month jail term for Tyrone Emberley, 20, while his lawyer has asked for a sentence to be served on weekends so he can continue to work.

A sentencing decision is scheduled for Aug. 29.

Emberley earlier pleaded guilty to two counts of unlawful confinement and possession of a dangerous weapon.

According to an agreed statement of facts, Emberley and convicted drug dealer Kenneth Matthews, 19, were in a car with the two girls on Sept. 24, 2014.

While the men had left the vehicle, the girls found a plastic bag containing ecstasy and $85 and fled with it.

The next night, the girls were at a friend’s house when Matthews and Emberley came in, armed and angry over the theft.

Both girls were forced into a bedroom and one girl was made to watch while Matthews hit the other girl with a baseball bat, choked her and cut her hair with scissors. Matthews then told the girls they would have to sell their bodies to pay for the stolen ecstasy.

Matthews took the beaten girl into the kitchen and told her he was going to burn her face on the stove. Emberley brought the other girl to watch. As Matthews turned on one of the burners, the beaten girl struggled to escape, but both men restrained her.

Matthews then burned her on the cheek with a lit cigarette and made her eat four cigarette butts and drink spoiled chocolate milk.

Matthews was handed a 31/2-year prison term in 2015.