Former Halifax bar bouncer sentenced to 4 years in patron’s death - BERITAJA

A erstwhile Halifax barroom bouncer has been sentenced to 4 years successful situation for the decease of a patron connected Christmas Eve 2022.

Alexander Pishori Levy was recovered blameworthy of manslaughter successful the decease of Ryan Sawyer, 31, who had been successful municipality from Ontario to sojourn family complete the holidays.

At the time, Levy was employed arsenic the caput of information astatine the now-closed Halifax Alehouse bar successful downtown Halifax.

During his judge-alone proceedings successful September 2025, Levy told the tribunal he applied a chokehold connected Sawyer extracurricular the barroom during a scuffle. Sawyer suffered a bosom onslaught and later died successful hospital.

Levy’s defence based on his actions were successful self-defence, which Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice James Chipman rejected successful his decision.

Chipman said he did not judge Levy successful “virtually each captious area” of his grounds and called Levy’s type of what happened arsenic “incredibly contrived and self-serving.”

Levy was besides recovered blameworthy of criminal negligence causing death, but a judicial enactment was granted connected that complaint because of a ineligible rule against aggregate convictions for a azygous criminal matter.

In summation to his clip successful national custody, his condemnation includes a 10-year firearms prohibition and a DNA order.

In a written sentencing determination released Friday, Justice Chipman wrote that he wanted to reiterate really tragic the lawsuit was.

“Mr. Levy will nary uncertainty carnivore the affectional load of these events for the remainder of his life,” wrote Chipman.

“Ryan Sawyer was a loving, loved young man taken down successful the premier of his life. I cognize that this condemnation will do small to easiness the unspeakable suffering of Ryan’s family and friends who must proceed to spell connected pinch their lives without him.”