By Bob Mackin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Prince George Citizen A five-year jail sentence — one year more than the mandatory minimum — was imposed on a woman convicted of manslaughter with a firearm. Lona Lynette Cole, 53, learned her fate in BC Supreme Court in Quesnel on April 9, almost a year after Justice Marguerite Church found her guilty of killing her intimate partner, Robert Douglas, with a single shot from a Winchester rifle at his rural home on July 6, 2020. Cole had been charged with second-degree murder of the 58-year-old, but Church had reasonable doubt because she lacked intent and planning. She found her guilty of the lesser and included offence after determining there was a reasonable inference that Cole was either unaware the rifle was loaded…
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