Hells Angels associate has been convicted for his participation in the beating of Dain Phillips. Moreover, Anson Schell, the Hells Angels associate, was even captured on police wiretap making some rather "enthusiastic" comments after the brutal attack.
Justice Mark McEwan even challenged Schell's attorney, David Johnson, over suggestions that his young client had absolutely no idea what would happen when he agreed to join Matthew and Danny McRae for a fight with Phillips and his two sons.
Johnson mentioned that Schell, who was only 19 years old at the time that Phillips was killed back in June of 2011, should only be sentenced to two years less a day for his manslaughter conviction. According to the defense lawyer, Schell only had a "limited role" in the said crime and that he was not really involved in the actual planning of the crime, which was done by two other Hells Angels members who attacked Phillips with the use of a bat and a ball-peen hammer.
McEwan, however, referred to the Schell's comments, which have been recorded, when Phillips was left unconscious on a roadside in Kelowna. McEwan stated, "He is rather enthusiastic about the whole thing. And, he's the one who says Phillips was 'taking a dirt nap.' That means dead. It doesn't mean injured and taken away to the hospital. He's practically gloating over what happened."
Johnson then argued that the comments that Hells Angels Schell made were only those of an immature teenager who was merely showing off in front of senior members of the group. To this McEwan responded, "You have to got to think of what they are feeling bravado about - taking a man down - boom, boom."
The Hells Angels members involved in the brutal crime, Schell and the McRae brothers, were actually convicted last July because of manslaughter. The crown prosecutor, Joe Bellows, stated that the sentencing of five-year terms would only be appropriate for both Matthew McRae and Schell. Danny McRae, on the other hand, will be getting a sentence of six years for planning the entire thing.
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