Posted: Jan 27, 2021 11:56 AM CT | Last Updated: January 27
The Yukon court building in Whitehorse.(Claudiane Samson/Radio-Canada)
A Whitehorse woman has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2017 slaying of Greg Dawson.
Connie Peggy Thorn, 52, entered her plea in Yukon Supreme Court Wednesday morning.
Dawson, a 45-year-old citizen of Ta'an Kwäch'än Council, was found beaten to death in a Riverdale apartment on April 6, 2017.
'Loud banging sound,' and later, sobbing
According to admissions of fact Crown attorney Noel Sinclair read to the court, Thorn and Dawson were in a relationship and living together in a basement apartment on Alsek Road.