A Prince George woman was sentenced to two years house arrest Wednesday for her part in the death of her teenage son and the disposal of his body in a wooded area along the Nechako River slightly more than 10 years ago.
Adam Williams-Dudoward's body was not found until four years after his death in January 2000 and only after his mother, Judy Elaina Williams, went to the RCMP in Oliver with her story.
She had lived "hidden in a trailer" on a rural property outside the Okanagan town for those four years, living in fear of her common-law husband, Lloyd William Cook, also implicated in the death, before one day in late October 2004 she just decided to "sneak off."
"After four years of living in this environment, she did what many prisoners do and tried to escape," defence lawyer Jon Duncan said during submissions before sentencing and went on to argue that Williams "did the right things" upon gaining her freedom.
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