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Kipling has shown no remorse or em- pathy for the victim, and at an earlier sentencing hearing argued the court was treating him like a killer, provin- cial court Judge Murray Thompson said Wednesday. “The vicious and unprovoked nature of this offence, the accused’s uncaring attitude toward it and his very high risk to public safety leads me to conclude that protection of the public and person- al deterrence and denunciation must be the focus of this sentence,” Thompson said. Kipling attacked the boy after the two struck up a conversation at a Selkirk Av- enue pizza restaurant on May 30, 2020. Security video at the restaurant showed Kipling and the boy talking when Kipling showed the boy the con- tents of his backpack, including a ham- mer and what appeared to be a knife. When the boy collected his order and made his way to the exit, Kipling fol- lowed him and struck him in the head with the claw end of the hammer. The handle of the hammer broke off, leaving the claw end embedded in the boy’s skull. Kipling picked up the han- dle and walked out of the restaurant. Two weeks later, police arrested Kip- ling near Austin Street and Pritchard Avenue and found a hatchet in his back- pack. Taken into custody, Kipling asked police: “Where are my fingerprints?” knowing he had taken the hammer han- dle with him, Thompson said. He later asked police what had happened to the beer he had in his backpack. He showed no interest in the boy he was accused of attacking. A pre-sentence report prepared for court describes “someone who is not remorseful of his actions,” Thompson said. The boy — who wears a helmet to protect his damaged skull — spent three weeks in hospital and had three neurosurgeries cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He has lost func- tion to his right arm and hand and now has a stutter. “He will never have a proper life,” the boy’s aunt wrote in a victim impact statement provided to court. “He’s con- sidered ‘special needs’ now.” At trial, Kipling argued he was not the man depicted in security video at- tacking the boy, but his aunt Mary Kip- ling and cousin Darrel Kelly both pro- vided testimony positively identifying him as the same man. Kipling’s criminal record includes two aggravated assault convictions for a 2015 knife attack on his aunt and cousin. Kipling attacked his aunt with a knife after she asked him to leave her home; and slashed his cousin in the chest and shoulder when he tried to intervene. While in custody for the hammer at- tack, Kipling was charged with stab- bing another inmate with a pencil. Court heard Kipling has a family his- tory of residential school involvement and struggled for long periods of time with drugs and alcohol. Defence lawyer Mike Cook suggested at an earlier hearing Kipling was high on meth at the time of the attack, but Thompson said there was no evidence before the court that Kipling had been using drugs. Doctors have found no evidence Kip- ling suffers from a mental disorder and are “unable to pinpoint the source of his aggression,” Thompson said. Kipling was sentenced to an addition- al 9 months in prison for possession of a weapon dangerous to the public (the hatchet) and two counts of breaching court orders. dean.pritchard@freepress.mb.ca Unrepentant attacker gets 10 years for hammer assault DEAN PRITCHARD A 44-year-old Winnipeg taxi driver has been charged in an alleged assault last month on a 19-year-old Brokenhead Ojib- way Nation woman. Shortly after 1 a.m. on Sept. 26, city police responded to Portage Avenue and Arlington Street for a report of an alterca- tion involving a cabbie and pas- senger. On Tuesday, Winnipeg police arrested the Unicity taxi driver, charging him with forcible con- finement and assault. He was released on an undertaking; his name has not been made public. Last week, Serenity Mor- risseau held a news confer- ence about the alleged assault, flanked by family and Assem- bly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Arlen Dumas. The First Nations organization said as- saults on Indigenous people, particularly women, are com- mon in city cabs. At the time, Morrisseau said a ride home with two friends to Arlington Street from The Forks turned ugly. Following an altercation with another taxi, she alleged the driver punched her in the face and head multiple times after the two friends and the cabbie exited the vehicle near Portage Avenue and Arlington Street. She said the driver got back in the vehicle, locking the door be- fore she was able to get out. Morrisseau said she unlocked the door and was able to get part of her body out of the taxi, but was dragged for nearly a block. “I decided that, ‘OK, he’s not going to stop, I need to actually do something,’” she said at the news event, adding she was wor- ried she would be abducted. She said she jammed her hand through the gap between the safety shield and the vehicle ceiling to grab the driver’s head, who eventually stopped the cab. After the incident, both pas- senger and driver reported individual assaults to officers, Winnipeg Police Service Const. Jay Murray told the Free Press at the time. On Wednesday, Morrisseau and her mother, Tracy Bone, could not be reached for com- ment, nor could Unicity Taxi’s manager. In a Facebook video posted Wednesday morning, Bone said: “I am glad that there is some- thing being done... I think it took something like this, and all of us being able to come together to support one another to have charges... laid upon this cab driver.” Bone organized a gather- ing on the Manitoba legisla- tive grounds last week, where people were encouraged to share experiences of racism and violence in city taxis, before a protest was held outside of the taxi company’s headquarters. erik.pindera@freepress.mb.ca Cab driver charged with assault, confinement of teen passenger ERIK PINDERA TWO teens were assaulted by a machete-wielding 15-year-old Tuesday evening. The two assaults occurred between 7 and 8 p.m., one in the North End and the other downtown, the Winnipeg Police Service said Wednesday. Officers were called to Mountain Avenue and Aikins Street, where they found a teenage victim with serious injuries. He was taken to hospital in unstable condition, but was later upgraded to sta- ble condition. On Wednesday afternoon, there was no sign a crime had taken place at the scene. Across the street, a store clerk said he saw an ambulance, fire truck and at least three police cruisers around 7 p.m., while officers put up tape near a church on Mountain Avenue. “There was sirens all over the place,” the clerk said, who asked his name not be used. He wasn’t sure what had happened, until a regu- lar customer came in Wednesday and said he’d witnessed the attack. “In this neighbourhood, it doesn’t surprise me,” he said. In the second attack, police went to a hotel park- ing lot on the 100 block of Garry Street, where they found a second teenage victim. He was taken to hospital in unstable condition, but later upgrad- ed to stable. It is believed the accused knew each victim, Const. Dani McKinnon said. “They had both become involved in separate al- tercations ending in the machete attack,” McKin- non said. The accused, who is from Winnipeg, is charged with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, two counts of possessing a weapon and three counts of failing to comply with release orders. He was arrested on the 300 block of Sherbrook Street Tuesday night and was detained in cus- tody. erik.pindera@freepress.mb.ca Fifteen-year-old attacks teens with machete ERIK PINDERA THE woman killed in a collision with a vehicle fleeing Winnipeg police Monday was a longtime financial planner with a robust volunteer history and a goal of helping others. Cynthia Duncan was driving west on Provench- er Boulevard, near Nadeau Street, when her ve- hicle was struck by a suspect car speeding away from a traffic stop. She was a financial planner with Desjardins Financial Security Investments Inc. for 19 years, according to a profile on the LinkedIn platform. “I want to help people,” Duncan wrote online. “I (don’t) want my clients to have to worry about money.” “I also now want to leave a legacy — to help more Canadians not to have to worry about money by improving financial literacy and helping advis- ers and financial planners to be better able to help Canadians.” She also volunteered as co-chairwoman for the Manitoba Financial Literacy Forum, financial lit- eracy chairwoman of the Winnipeg chapter of Ad- vocis (Financial Advisors Association of Canada), and chairwoman of the research committee for FP Canada Research Foundation, a charity that funds financial planning research. “We are shocked and saddened by the sudden passing of Cynthia Duncan,” Tashia Batstone, president and chief executive officer of FP Cana- da, said Wednesday in a written statement. “Cyn- thia was a leader in financial planning and was passionate about financial literacy.” The research foundation had announced Dun- can’s appointment in June. “Cynthia’s dedication and passion for research work at the FP Canada Research Foundation board will be hard to replace,” Batstone wrote. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Cynthia’s family at this time.” Police arrested James Joseph Wieler, 31, at the scene of the incident Monday. Wieler faces sever- al charges, including operating a vehicle causing death while impaired. His next court date is Oct. 15. gabrielle.piche@winnipegfreepress.com Woman killed in city street crash was ‘leader in financial planning’ GABRIELLE PICHÉ Jerry Kipling has shown no remorse or empathy for his 15-year-old victim. MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Serenity Morrisseau told a news conference last week she was attacked by a cab driver. The driver has since been charged. GRAEM POOLE PHOTO Cynthia Duncan’s life came to a tragic end Monday when her vehicle was struck by a car as it fled Winnipeg police. B_03_Oct-07-21_FP_01.indd B3 2021-10-06 10:13 PM ;