"WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) - A 25-year-old Canadian soldier was convicted of aggravated assault Wednesday for a fight that left a Minnesota college student comatose for two weeks.
Derick Lee Besaw, a private with the 2nd Battalion of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, bashed the victim’s head into a wall after an argument over two young women, according to court testimony.
“This was a horrible crime,” said Queen’s Bench Justice Nathan Nurgitz. “The accused … was involved in driving the victim’s head into the wall.”
Alex Ourada of Westbrook, Minn., spent two weeks in a coma following the March 2002 attack inside a downtown Winnipeg hotel. Now 21, the former high school wrestling champion still has memory gaps and slight brain damage.
Ourada, a student at Minnesota State University, went to Canada with five friends to celebrate spring break. The legal drinking age in Manitoba is 18.
The Americans met Besaw and a friend at the hotel, but the group started arguing when the Canadians showed interest in two young women traveling with Ourada, according to court testimony. Witnesses said Besaw then attacked Ourada, smashed his head into a wall and stomped his head and torso."
Those fuckin stupid amercians come to canada to start shit and then they get fuckin beat up! just to sum everything up i’am Derick and those amercians attacked me and we did’nt want there woman anyway they were pigs! they wanted us and ivited us back to party with them, and the next thing i know i was getting jumped over some bullshit. so i fuckin smashed him out,and it fuckin looks good on him, as the old saying goes don’t start anything and there won’t be anything. FUCK’EM
No. Its American tourists who cannot handle their liquor that suck. They certainly suck at fightiing…lol. Give them a man’s beer and look what happens.
see its been my experience with canadians that they cant handle thier own liquer as well, but i have to give props to Derik for the beatdown on stupidity. Now whether the story he tells is true or not is an entirely different matter due to hear-say evidence, butif you had something on video so we could see it (which would be really cool) i would believe that it wasn’t entirely your fault.
