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A Birch River man will spend at least the next ten years in jail after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in a death in the community from almost two years ago.

RCMP in Swan River discovered the deceased body of a 68-year-old man inside of a home in Birch River after they responded to a fire at the home in October of 2022. 

22-year-old Lincoln Chartrand-Flett was sentenced to life in prison, with no chance of parole for 10 years.