A man in Canada has been sentenced to jail for nine months for throwing an elderly birdwatcher off a cliff in Canada.
Joshua Skinner,30, pleaded guilty to assaulting Roy Prior, 78, and Jason Easton, who came to Prior’s rescue, The Vancouver Sun reported.
The Victoria provincial court heard Skinner, who was going through a breakup with his girlfriend, took two bottles of wine to Dallas Road and drank one bottle. He has no memory of the offences, and remembers only waking up in a Victoria police jail cell.
The incident occurred last February on Dallas Road in Victoria Vancouver island, Canada.
Prior, who had been walking alone, was standing near the embankment when Skinner approached him from behind and said: “You want to be down there?”
Skinner pushed Prior over the 12-metre bank, then lost his balance and tumbled behind him. Prior fractured his pelvis and received cuts and bruises.
Easton, who was on the beach, heard Skinner yelling at Prior. He tried to protect Prior but was assaulted himself, the court heard.
Skinner was given a 60-day concurrent sentence for assaulting Easton.