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Jewels Asham, 17, who was raised to be sentenced as an adult after pleading guilty to manslaughter before his trial began last November, was sentenced Wednesday to one more year in prison on top of what he has already served in pretrial custody. Asham was also given three years of probation to serve after his release. Justice Robert Dewar of the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench said Asham has spent just over 800 days, or more than two years, in custody. Dewar said Asham joined the MOB gang when he was 12 and sold and consumed illegal drugs. " That lifestyle resulted in this offence," the judge said. Clarky Stevenson, 15, died after being stabbed on Sept. 10, 2011. Court was told Stevenson was a member of the Indian Posse gang and, when he confronted Asham and some of his friends, yelled, " Do you want to get shot?" Court heard Stevenson was stabbed eight times - with Asham coming up to the teen from behind and stabbing him once - and was able to ride his bicycle about a block before collapsing and dying. Another man, Steven Johnston, was acquitted of second- degree murder in the death of Stevenson after a trial last year. Dewar said he took into consideration Asham has significant cognitive deficits and was only a month past his 14th birthday when the crime occurred. " My experience is adolescents do a lot of growing between 14 and 18," Dewar said. - Kevin Rollason M ARRIAGE is supposed to be about love and partnership, not torture and violence. But a judge heard on Wednesday how a Winnipeg woman suffered years of abuse - and was left with permanent physical scars - at the hands of her common- law husband before she finally went to the police. Shawn Alexander Duncan has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, assault causing bodily harm and repeated assaults, assaults with a weapon and uttering threats from 2008 to 2013. Justice Sadie Bond of the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench said she would give her sentencing decision next month. During sentencing, Crown attorney Daniel Chaput told the court the abuse happened throughout the couple's relationship. " This was a relationship built on a faulty foundation," Chaput said. " It was based on control by Mr. Duncan on ( the woman)... and it was where she should have been safest - within the four corners of that home. He has to be deterred from ever doing anything like this again." In an agreed statement of facts, the abuse included: . After telling her to take her clothes off, he took her studded belt and whipped her with it, striking her as many as 50 times and leaving permanent scarring. . He pushed her head close to an open stove element for so long she suffered burns and blistering on her entire face, causing her to go to a doctor. She didn't receive permanent scars but was seriously injured. . A few days after the stove incident, he struck her three or four times in her injured face. . He broke a wooden table tray after repeatedly hitting her with it while she was curled up in a fetal position. She was left with a scar on her leg. . He slapped her, bashing her head against a wall three times to the point of damaging it, and throwing her into a fridge and a bathroom door. The woman suffered a chipped tooth and black eyes from this incident. . He slammed the woman's head repeatedly into a kitchen counter and then hit her with a cookie sheet at least five times. She suffered a lump to her forehead and tenderness to the back of her head. Defence counsel Leonard Tailleur said Duncan suffered physical abuse from his mother, who assaulted him with belts and crutches. " The abused becomes the abuser," Tailleur said. " It was not spontaneous behaviour that did not have a prior history." kevin. rollason@ freepress. mb. ca Trial told of years of spousal abuse By Kevin Rollason Three years for role in slaying of gangster PHIL HOSSACK / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES A makeshift memorial for Clarky Stevenson in September 2011. A_ 07_ Jan- 29- 15_ FP_ 01. indd A7 1/ 28/ 15 10: 03: 46 PM ;