A guilty
plea from a Saint John man charged in connection with a brutal beating
at an uptown rooming house that led to a 66 year-old's death.
35
year-old Nicholas Logan pleading guilty to manslaughter after Duncan
MacDonald died in hospital on April 10 from injuries he sustained from
the March 16 incident on the corner of Duke and Prince William.
MacDonald
had a broken neck, punctured lung and a severe brain injury. The
official cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head.
After
the incident, Logan told police he had felt "a strong desire to wipe out
everyone in the building." Logan has been undergoing mental health
assessments at a hospital in Restigouche, where he's been remanded until
his next court appearance on August 30: a disposition hearing before
sentencing.
Judge Henrik Tonning calling cases like this one "very complicated."