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An Oxford House man faces 15 years in prison after being convicted of charges related to a 2011 incident in which a friend of the man's ex-girlfriend was abducted and sexually assaulted multiple times in an attempt to exact revenge. Johnnie Kilbourne, 23, recently received the sentence from Judge Murray Thompson, the Winnipeg Sun reported. The judge said a 21-year sentence would have been appropriate before reducing it to 17 based on the totality principle, applied when multiple convictions and consecutive sentences lead to unusually long prison sentences. The sentence was then knocked down to 15 years after taking into account Kilbourne's personal history. The incident that led to the charges occurred on June 18, 2011, when Kilbourne sexually assaulted a then-26-year-old woman and abducted her for several hours after having tied up and stabbed a 22-year-old man who was with her. _ Ian Graham, Nickel Belt News
