Saskatoon man acquitted of assaulting neighbour with lawn mower, but convicted of stabbing

A judge rejected Garry Laurin's claim that he was defending himself when he stabbed his neighbour five times in an alley brawl.

A Saskatoon man was convicted of aggravated assault for stabbing his neighbour five times in the chest during a fight in the alley behind their Pleasant Hill neighbourhood homes.

The two-day provincial court trial heard the dispute began after “beaking” between the neighbours led to a lawn mower shell being tossed over their fence in the 400 block of Avenue T South.