Man beats up co-worker during New Year’s Eve fireworks show

By Bob Mackin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Prince George Citizen A BC Supreme Court judge in Quesnel reserved sentence for a man who severely injured a younger co-worker at a New Year’s Eve party at their employer’s house. Darcy Larry Edward Penner pleaded guilty Tuesday, April 1 to aggravated assault before Justice Marguerite Church. Church heard an agreed statement of facts that said Penner, who was 37 at the time, punched a 17-year-old in the head around the time that partygoers were enjoying fireworks to ring in 2024. Penner knocked the victim to the ground and repeatedly punched him in the face while he lay on the ground. The victim was bloodied and his jaw broken. The victim admitted that he gave Penner the finger around 11 p.m. and that…

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