A Prince George provincial court judge described on Monday a carefully-coordinated home invasion that left one of the home's occupants with extensive injuries as he sentenced a woman to 30 months in jail for her role in the raid.
Tracy Deborah Gibbon, 47, was issued the term for one count of unlawful confinement or imprisonment for the April 18, 2014 incident. She was also issued concurrent 24-month terms for assault causing bodily harm, uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm and being unlawfully in a dwelling house.
In a reasons for judgment, Judge Randall Callan said Gibbon had been evicted from the home, for which no address was provided, the previous February for failing to pay her rent. The arrears added up to $2,300, the court had heard.
Sometime before 9:30 a.m., Gibbon's son, Kyler Gregory Thomas Stevens, 20, her daughter, Cherrisse Brandi May Labre, 25, and her daughter's boyfriend, Andrew Donald Woodcock, 33, showed up at the front door.
A man identified in the judgment only as W answered. The trio said they wanted to inspect the belongings Gibbon had left behind. As he let them in, three more people who had been hiding behind a nearby bush, and who W was unable to identify, rushed the entrance and forced their way into the home. Gibbon showed up a half hour later.
Woodcock and two others confined W to the living room while Stevens, Labre and one other went to the downstairs bedroom where Gibbon's possessions were stored and began taking them outside to waiting trucks.
But they also started taking items owned by W and by a woman who had moved in after Gibbon had moved out. Gibbon even demanded the woman remove her pants, claiming they were hers, Callan noted.
Callan described a well-planned operation in which walkie-talkies were used to coordinate the loading of the trucks, which were subsequently piled to the vehicles' roof levels with goods from the home, while Labre acted as a timekeeper.
"At one point, she told the other intruders that they only had 10 minutes left until the police might arrive," Callan said.
Woodcock administered "three severe beatings" including a kick to the chest and blows to the head to W. Woodcock also fired a Taser at W but no current was delivered. Gibbon punched W in the head and face and Stevens hit him in the head with a toy piano.
And when W was sent to a bathroom to clean himself up, he was attacked again, when he was thrown into the bathtub and punched several times. W was unable to identify the attacker because he was covered with a shower curtain but recognized the gloves the assaulter was wearing as the same kind worn by Woodcock.
W was warned against calling the police and testified that while in the bathroom, he heard a conversation outside about a plan to tie the door shut and burn the house down.
W ended up with a fractured sternum, fractured ribs, broken and knocked out teeth and cuts, bruises and scratches from the beatings he took.
Defence counsel had adduced evidence that the home was a crack house. Gibbon trafficked in crack cocaine and so did the woman who moved in after she was evicted, the court heard.
Gibbon had remained in custody since her arrest in August on the matter.
In March, Woodcock was sentenced to 14 months in jail and 18 months probation for one count of unlawful confinement or imprisonment. He also received concurrent terms of six months for assault causing bodily harm and three months for being unlawfully in a dwelling house.
In February, Stevens was sentenced to 60 days in jail and 18 months probation for assault with a weapon and possession of a dangerous weapon.
Labre is still to be sentenced on six charges related to the incident.
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