Murder conviction in Woodstock beating death

One of three men charged in the beating death of a Woodstock man just over a year ago has been found guilty of second-degree murder.

Richard Alan King, 33, of Hainesville, N.B., will serve at least 10 years of a life sentence.

A hearing is scheduled June 15 to determine when he will be eligible for parole.

The three men were charged in the death of Shawn Budgie Tomah, 37, in Woodstock May 5, 2006.

The other two Hainesville men were found guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter in an earlier trial.

Jason Andrew King, 28, and MacKenzie Larry Sharpe, 21, will be sentenced June 4.

Tomah's body had been found on a sidewalk below an open second-storey apartment window.

The trial heard he had been brutally beaten in the apartment.

A fourth man, Jason Crawford, 30, of Wicklow, N.B., is charged with obstruction of justice and with being an accessory after the fact.

His trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 15.