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Global News
30-06-2025
- Global News
1-year sentence for B.C. man who viciously beat woman who fired his wife
At Cranbrook Provincial Court, Colin Harrison was sentenced to one year behind bars after pleading guilty to a vicious assault that happened in September 2024. Harrison attacked Michelle Cubin outside her essential oil business in Kimberley. It happened soon after she terminated his spouse. During the assault, he repeatedly punched her in the head and face while kneeling on her chest. Her injuries included a concussion. 'I'm happy. I was scared it was going to be community time or whatever,' Cubin told Global News outside the courthouse. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy 'Yeah, 12 months was a long time. Like sitting there, hearing all the details and stuff, so 12 months I think is more than the Crown even asked for, so I feel a lot better.' Cubin's friend Krista Moody was also at the sentencing. Story continues below advertisement 'I'm thrilled today,' she said. 'I think the judge understood everything that happened, and as a community,y we are happy to see justice was served.' Cubin also said the sentence means she'll now feel safer in her own home, and she'll feel a degree of peace. 'He needs help, and I just hope that when he gets out, he's learned, he's learned his lesson, and who knows where I'll be in a year. I have no idea.' Harrison left the courthouse in handcuffs and was driven away to do his 12-month sentence, which will be followed by two years of probation.
Global News
24-05-2025
- Global News
Victim of Kimberley, B.C. beating speaks out ahead of attacker's sentencing
A B.C. business owner who survived a brutal beating last year is speaking out as her attacker is about to be sentenced. The attack happened Sept. 28 as Michelle Cubin was behind her wellness business with an employee in the East Kootenay community of Kimberley. That's when the husband of another employee she had recently terminated pulled into the parking lot and began berating her. 'He told my employee that she had better get out of here, and then he proceeded to attack me, punch me in the face, threw me to the ground,' she told Global News. As Cubin's employee called 911, the attack continued. 1:42 Call for action on gender-based violence 'He still kept kicking and punching and dragging me all across the parking lot,' she said. Story continues below advertisement 'He ended up … grabbing my pants, ripping my pants off, punched me in the head, punched me in the face. Somehow got me on my back, kneeled on my chest, punching me repeatedly for about six minutes the 911 call is.' Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy He eventually relented when another bystander showed up, and got into his truck and drove away, she said. Colin Harrison was charged and released. He ultimately pleaded guilty to assault and is due to be sentenced on May 30. But the attack has had lasting effects on Cubin, who suffered a concussion and still grapples with the effects, including memory loss, irritability, fatigue and stress. She said it's also affected her children, the youngest of whom now gets 'super panicky' when he hears sirens. 'It's still isolating and lonely. You get assaulted, all the bruises and stuff heal — you seem like you are fine, but you're not,' she said. What's more, she said her attacker lives just a few minutes' drive from her home, and that she often sees him out and about in their small community. She said she's been left fearful coming and going from her business, and can't stop looking over her shoulder when she is alone. 'I was never scared of men before, really. I am now,' she said. Story continues below advertisement 'I kind of avoid going to work. Once I am at work, I am good, but I definitely overthink the first coming to work and stuff.' Cubin's friend Krista Moody said the process of healing has been long and complicated, but that she's been impressed by her friend's resilience. 4:52 Report outlines failures limiting effectiveness of peace bonds and protection orders 'We spend a lot of time alone in our stores, and just the fear she has now, every single day, coming here — but she still keeps her business going, so I have noticed that strength in her,' Moody said. 'She just keeps going but some days are really hard physically and emotionally for her.' Moody said the community has rallied around her friend, with people volunteering to escort Cubin to and from work to help her feel safe, or dropping flowers off at her shop. Story continues below advertisement She said the neighbourhood has also been on the lookout to ensure the area around the business is safe, but that the community remains on edge. 'The fact that someone would have that little self-control and be violent enough to pull up to her place of work and beat her? He had steel-toed boots on, he kicked her in the head, punched her in the head for six minutes,' she said. 'If she hadn't fought back so hard, I don't know what state she would be in now.' Cubin and her supporters are now anxiously awaiting a sentence, and say they hope her attacker is given time behind bars. Cubin, meanwhile, said she felt it was important to speak out to shine a light on the violence. 'How little support there is and how little awareness there is for these types of things, and how often it happens — you don't hear about it.,' she said. 'And the legal system, everything is so behind. It happened Sept. 28, and I am still dealing with it. He is still walking around, and I am still looking over my shoulder all the time.'
