Man who killed attacker in Banff used 'excessive' force, sentenced to 2

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After learning the man who killed their loved one would not go to jail, several of Ryden Brogden’s family members stormed out of the courtroom.

On Wednesday, a Calgary judge announced John Sproule would serve a conditional sentence order involving two years of house arrest.

Originally charged with second-degree murder, 23-year-old Sproule was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury earlier this year for fatally stabbing Brogden while outside a Banff bar in September 2022.

But it was Brogden, 27, who first attacked Sproule when he pushed and sucker punched the then-20-year-old and continued the assault by punching and rag-dolling the younger man down the street.

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