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Youth Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter in Taig Savage Killing
The Crown accepted a manslaughter plea as judges imposed a publication ban to protect upcoming trials for the other accused.
- On Friday, one of the three youth charged in the 2021 death of 22-year-old Taig Savage pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Kelowna Supreme Court, with the Crown accepting the plea to replace the earlier second-degree murder charge.
- Savage died on September 5, 2021, after being found unresponsive at Penticton Secondary School, prompting charges against four individuals including then-18-year-old Isaac Jack in April 2024.
- Issuing a publication ban on Friday, Justice Bradford Smith restricted disclosure of offence circumstances to protect upcoming trials; the Youth Criminal Justice Act automatically shields identities of those under 18 at the time of the alleged offence.
- Tracey Savage, the victim's mother, posted to Facebook that her family received notice only at 2 p.m. the day before, writing she is "heartbroken and ashamed of what I am witnessing from our Canadian justice system."
- The jury trial for Jack is scheduled for 2027, though court proceedings continue next week as another youth faces a plea hearing on September 14 and a third faces trial on the same date; Jack's defence counsel James Pennington recently died.
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