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Hutchison recalls. As midnight neared, however, Bob became worried about a rowdy house party down the road where he knew the owners were away. He went over with a few of their guests to try to calm things down. Hutchison told a rapt audience of high-school students this week. When Ms. Hutchison projected a picture of Bob, lying dead in the local morgue with a white tube stuck in his mouth, you could hear a pin drop.

Bob McIntosh, a popular lawyer who had just captained Canada's world triathalon team, was killed during a sudden, savage assault by two local year-olds, high on booze. Resenting his suggestion that they close the party down, one knocked him out with a single punch. The other man, Ryan Aldridge, delivered five fierce kicks to his head.

An artery to Mr. McIntosh's brain was severed and within minutes he was dead, leaving behind Ms. Hutchison and the couple's four-year-old twins, Sam and Emma. Now, nearly six years later, Katy Hutchison is using the senselessness of her husband's death to deliver a powerful message to young people, warning them against bad choices that can ruin and take lives in an instant. Even more remarkable is Ms. Hutchison's own extraordinary odyssey, her refusal to bow down to grief and most of all, her capacity to forgive Ryan Aldridge, the man who killed her husband.

Aldridge is serving a five-year term for manslaughter and hardly a day goes by when Ms. Hutchison does not think about him and wonder how he's doing. He is almost part of the family. At a recent meal, Sam wondered what Mr.

Aldridge was eating in prison. Katy's second husband, Victoria lawyer Michael Hutchison, likes to joke that Ryan is his wife's third child. The burly Mr. Aldridge, a former notorious town bully, tearfully apologized to Ms. Hutchison and her children before he was sentenced.

He has consistently expressed deep remorse over his actions. The two have met twice face to face. Hutchison calls their first encounter the most intense human experience of her life. Another, now known to be Mr.

Aldridge, kicked him four times "soccer-style" in the head, tearing an artery and causing his death. Aldridge has been consumed by regret; his lawyer, Michael Mines, called him "the most remorseful client I've ever had. In a letter to "Sam, Emma, Katie," Mr. Aldridge expressed his sorrow "for the grief that I caused you and your family. He said that he had not come forward right away because he could not remember everything that happened. Mines said his client had consumed a dozen beer and smoked a lot of dope.

In sentencing Mr. Aldridge to five years for manslaughter, the term requested by the Crown, Judge Diebolt said the court must send a strong message that "senseless acts of violence will not be tolerated in our society. Afterward, Katy Hutchison she has since remarried said she was satisfied with the sentence. She noted that Mr. Aldridge's remorse and apology, though genuine, were "late in coming.

However, she added, she hopes Mr. Aldridge comes out of jail "ready to enter society and be a more productive, giving member. I wish him the very best in his future. Follow Rod Mickleburgh on Twitter: rodmickleburgh Opens in a new window. Report an error. Editorial code of conduct. So I take back the "gutless" part. And If Aldridge keeps on contributing to helping other young people avoid his tragic path, I might even take back the "puke" part.

If not, I reserve the right to call my friend in Terrace. By now he might have some even better ideas. He lives in North Vancouver. Home Opinion Jaded journalist has a tentative change of heart More than a year ago, I sat in the North Vancouver Provincial Courthouse watching a small television monitor as a blubbering Ryan Aldridge confessed to a police officer that he had, in fact, killed Bob McIntosh. Share on Facebook. This has been shared 0 times 0. Email Sign Up. More Opinion.

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