Man to spend 80 more days in jail for stabbing stepfather

Zachary Wall has been sentenced to six months in jail for stabbing his stepfather in the chest with a butcher knife at a home on Stewart St.

Wall pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm last week in Ontario Court of Justice in Peterborough . On Tuesday, Justice Stuart Konyer sentenced him to 180 days at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay.

City police and paramedics were called to 294 Stewart St. shortly after midnight on July 6 to the stabbing. The stepfather was found with a chest wound and taken by paramedics to Peterborough Regional Health Centre for treatment.

Wall was originally charged with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon and failing to comply with a probation order. Those charges were withdrawn at the request of the Crown.

According to the agreed statement of facts, all parties involved had been drinking. Reading from the facts on Aug. 30, assistant Crown attorney Kevin Doyle said police reported that Wall’s mother uttered that her son had done it.

Wall was located at the home and arrested. Police also found a blue-handled butcher knife with blood on it. The stepfather had a punctured left lung and required four stitches.

Wall has been in custody since his arrest and was given 100 days of credit for pre-sentence custody, leaving him 80 days left to serve behind bars. Upon his release, Wall will be on probation for a year and be prohibited from owning weapons for 10 years.

He was also sentenced on failing to comply with a probation and theft under $5,000 charge in connection to a separate crime.

Konyer gave Wall a 30-day sentence that will be served concurrently with the 180-day sentence of assault causing bodily harm.