Eight and a half years in jail and a lifetime weapons ban. That’s the sentence handed down for Wallaceburg’s Kourtny Audette for manslaughter in the 2018 death of Nick Laprise.
Kortney Audette was arrested in April, 2018 following the stabbing death of Dover Township’s Nick Laprise. Originally charged with first degree murder, Audette pleaded guilty to manslaughter in August, 2021.
The now 29-year-old worked in the sex industry with the Dover Township man as a client. Court heard Audette refused to have sex with him the night of the stabbing, but he wouldn’t stop.
Justice Paul Kowalyshyn handed down the sentence in court on Thursday, summing up Laprise’s death as a sex-for-hire business transaction with one party deciding they did not want to proceed, however that did not warrant the taking of a life.
Audette’s lawyer had asked for a suspended sentence and three years’ probation, while the Crown requested 10 years behind bars and a lifetime weapons ban.
Audette has been in custody since her arrest in April, 2018, and will serve another two and a half years.
