Crown appeals manslaughter verdict

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The crown is appealing a controversial manslaughter verdict in the case of a Stoney Creek man who stabbed his girlfriend eleven times in the chest.

Haiden Suarez-Noa had admitted to stabbing Tania Cowell, his girlfriend and mother of his child but said he didn’t intend to kill her.

During the case, 38-year old Suarez-Noa testified he snapped during a fight with Cowell when she threatened to keep their son from him.

Suarez-Noa used this as a defense and was found guilty of manslaughter, but not guilty of second-degree murder.

The case drew outrage from local women’s rights advocates, who want to abolish the defense of provocation.

The crown will now appeal the verdict.