Albert Jacob Jackman tied up Tyler Willock in the bedroom of his Langley home, applied duct tape to his eyes and mouth and hit him 20 times with a sledgehammer because he was convinced Willock had insulted the memory of a murdered friend.
Details of the 2009 attack that sent the 29-year-old Willock to hospital emerged during a Wednesday sentencing hearing for the 24-year-old Jackman and co-accused Wesley Edward Kelemen, 23.
The attack on Willock fractured his arms and legs and splattered the walls, ceiling and furniture of his bedroom with blood.
He required extensive surgery and months of rehab and will suffer from limited mobility for the rest of his life.
Jackman became outraged after someone told him Willock was making a joke about the murder of his friend, Kevin LeClair, a Surrey Red Scorpions associate gang member who was gunned down in a Langley strip mall in February, 2009.
Willock told some people that he no longer owed LeClair $40,000, because he was dead.
Jackman, who has a tattoo of LeClair, was outraged and arranged a meeting with Willock and got Kelemen to drive him there.
Willock and his roommate were preparing to move out of the Langley house at the time.
When the roommate went to the garage to pack, Jackman led Willock to the bedroom and attacked him while Kelemen, who did not know Jackman’s plan, tried to get him to stop after the initial assault, but failed.
The prosecution and defence lawyers have agreed that Kelemen, who was not directly involved in the assault, should be sentenced to time already served in jail since his arrest, one year and three months.
At The Times press deadline, the prosecutor was expected to seek a much longer jail term for Jackman, who is already serving life for an unrelated murder in Langley.
