Eric Daoust of Oliver was sentenced today in BC Supreme Court to time served, plus two years of probation including mandatory psychologi​cal counselling after changing a plea to guilty of mischief for an incident in the South Okanagan August 11th last year.

Eric and his younger brother were involved in the manufacture of a bomb and placing same under the car of Jesse Wilson – someone – the court was told was not well liked by either sibling.

Late at night the two, on a summer evening in 2013, arranged to place the pipe bomb under a small white car and lit the fuse. Eric Daoust drove the car to the scene and his brother Stephan put the bomb under the car. It exploded during a thunder storm – neighbours alerted to it in the morning when shrapnel was found across the alley in a garage and the bomb remnants found by a tow truck driver and later analyzed by the RCMP bomb squad.

The sentence handed down by Justice Catherine J. Bruce based on a plea agreement but the Judge noted there was no order for counselling and decided it was prudent to give such an order in her findings.

The sentenced included 30 days of jail time but Daoust had already served more than that in custody previously so no further incarceration required.

Defense lawyer Don Campbell of Kamloops admitted that Daoust made a terribly immature decision by sticking his neck out to help his brother. It was a serious breach of judgment but went on to say that the elder Daoust had worked very hard and has achieved his first year apprenticeship as an electrician.