FOG BLOG NB NEWS LOG: ROBERT POLCHIES SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON:

Polchies sentenced to life imprisonment in murder of 19-year-old Corey Sisson...Corey Sisson's mother said her whole world has been turned upside down since the murder of her son.

Hannah London told the courtroom in Burton, N.B. on Thursday that she had to get a dog to feel safe, that she fears for the safety of her other children and is riddled with anxiety.

"I cry going to sleep, waking up, driving home at night, driving to work, getting groceries — I cry all the time and I don't feel safe," she told the court through tears.

London said she cannot sleep without medication, and is living in a "mental jail."

"My emotional state will never heal or be the same," she said. "To me, it is a life sentence.".....Robby Polchies, 34, was sentenced to life in prison without eligibility for parole for 25 years for the 2019 murder of Corey Sisson. He sat in the courtroom wearing a plaid shirt and black hoodie.

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After a two month trial the Kingsclear First Nation man was convicted of first degree murder in December by a 12-person jury.

He was found to have shot Sisson, who was 19 years old, twice with a shotgun on a secluded trail in Noonan, near Fredericton.

In the crowded courtroom on Thursday morning, members of Sisson's family told the court how his murder has shattered their lives.

Sisson's father, Daniel Sisson told the court that he blamed himself for allowing Sisson to become "lost".

He said that after his son's death, everything he had touched became precious.

"Every moment of my life is poisoned and shaded by the loss of my son," he said.

"There is no place I can go in this world that this loss doesn't follow me."