Brandon Sun By: Drew May
The Brandon courthouse. (FILE/The Brandon Sun)
A day that began with convicted murder Michael Bridges telling a Brandon courtroom he was experiencing “pure rage” when he killed 18-year-old Erin Chorney in 2002 ended with an emotional and tearful apology to the victim’s family members seated in the room.
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A day that began with convicted murder Michael Bridges telling a Brandon courtroom he was experiencing pure rage when he killed 18-year-old Erin Chorney in 2002 ended with an emotional and tearful apology to the victim’s family members seated in the room.
Bridges himself took to the witness stand on the fifth day of his faint hope clause hearing in Brandon Court of Queen’s Bench. Bridges was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of first-degree murder in 2005, but is asking to be allowed to apply for parole early under a now-repealed section of the Criminal Code.
Bridges expressed remorse to chaplain for murder
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Michael Bridges witnessed serious abuse and was neglected in his childhood, issues that ultimately followed him to the night he murdered 18-year-old Erin Chorney and buried her in another person’s grave, a Brandon courtroom heard Wednesday.
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Michael Bridges witnessed serious abuse and was neglected in his childhood, issues that ultimately followed him to the night he murdered 18-year-old Erin Chorney and buried her in another person’s grave, a Brandon courtroom heard Wednesday.
Bridges was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2002 killing of Chorney in 2005, when he was 24 years old. He was sentenced to spend 25 years in prison without parole but is applying to be allowed to ask for parole earlier under a now-repealed section of the Criminal Code called the faint hope clause.
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BRANDON Michael Bridges witnessed serious abuse and was neglected in his childhood, issues that ultimately followed him to the night he murdered 18-year-old Erin Chorney and buried her in another person’s grave, a Manitoba courtroom heard Wednesday.
BRANDON Michael Bridges witnessed serious abuse and was neglected in his childhood, issues that ultimately followed him to the night he murdered 18-year-old Erin Chorney and buried her in another person’s grave, a Manitoba courtroom heard Wednesday.
Bridges was convicted in 2005 of first-degree murder in the 2002 killing. The then-24-year-old was sentenced to 25 years in prison without parole.