Sentence Handed Down In Brutal Sexual Assault

By 250 News

Prince George, B.C. -  A 34-year-old Prince George man has been sentenced to an additional nine years in custody for the kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault of a 62-year-old Prince George woman.

Joseph Fowlie is to spend the next nine years in prison, on top of the one year he has served while awaiting sentencing. He stood,  head bowed,  hands clasped, eyes closed, as Judge Tindale  read his reasons for sentence.

In handing down sentence in provincial court this afternoon, Judge Ron Tindale said the mitigating factors in this case were that Fowlie had no previous record, had turned himself in, had entered an early guilty plea, and had returned the victim to the area where he had forced her vehicle off the road.

Judge Tindale said the actions of the victim "were nothing short of heroic" during the course of this brutal assault, as the victim talked to her attacker throughout about her family and her desire to live. 

In her victim impact statement, the victim said that she, her family, her friends, and co-workers have been traumatized by this attack.

As Fowlie was led from the courtroom, his father broke down, completely overcome with emotion.

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