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Judge ignores sentence recommendation from both sides on assaults, head shavings

KAMLOOPS – Wearing a green sweater in the prisoner's dock, a Kamloops woman met her sentence hearing Tuesday afternoon by crying long, hard silent sobs into a tissue. Before Justice Ian Meiklem arrived to decide her fate, she and her mother told one another: “I love you.” Meiklem handed Mary Lynn Dyson, 30, a three-year...

Woman pleads guilty to assaults, shaving heads for her dealer

KAMLOOPS – The lawyer for a woman who kept video footage of herself beating and shaving heads of at least two women, told Kamloops Supreme Court during a sentence hearing his client was acting under the direction of her boss. Mary Lynn Dyson, 30, pleaded guilty last month to charges of assault with a weapon,...