The man who fatally stabbed another person who stepped in to defend a woman should be jailed for five years, a Crown prosecutor and defence lawyer told a Vancouver judge June 6.

On June 23, 2018, a fight unfolded on West Hastings Street near the intersection with Abbott Street, according to the Vancouver Police Department.

Abeal Negussie Abera, 26, was stabbed and died of his injuries a week after he was rushed to hospital in critical condition.

Prosecutor Patrick Fullerton told Vancouver Provincial Court Judge Reginald Harris June 6 that Abera had stepped between Benny Rae Armstrong and his common-law wife as they were having a dispute in a Downtown Eastside alley.

According to Fullerton, Abera had said: “Yo, bro, she’s just a girl. You don’t have to treat her like that calm down.”

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