A Vancouver man has been given a two-year conditional sentence to be served in the community, after pleading guilty in the death of a 72-year-old man.
Anthony Warren Woods, 31, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a B.C. Provincial Court in the death of Alex Gortmaker, who was killed in a Vancouver hotel on Dec. 15, 2020.
He was given a two-year conditional sentence, as well as three years probation.
In handing out the sentence, the judge said he considered the perpetrator’s condition and background in giving a lighter-than-normal sentence. This included Woods suffering verbal and emotional abuse as a child while in foster care, his “cognitive deficits,” and his sticking to his conditions and attending treatment for addictions….