A Saint John man convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the 2025 stabbing deaths of his sons, aged 10 and 17, is scheduled to be sentenced today.
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Roman Kamyshnyy, who has been in custody since Jan. 29, 2025, faces an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years. (Andrew Robson)
A Saint John man convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the 2025 stabbing deaths of his sons, aged 10 and 17, is scheduled to be sentenced today.
Roman Kamyshnyy, 46, is due to appear in Saint John Court of King’s Bench at 11 a.m.
A jury found Kamyshnyy guilty on June 24, after only a couple of hours of deliberations over two days.
The Crown argued the murders were “driven by vengeance” and designed to punish his ex-wife, the boys’ mother, for her alleged infidelity.
She had divorced him just two months prior and was in Ottawa for a work conference the day of the killings, the court heard.
A publication ban still prohibits naming the woman,
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