A Sarnia dentist has been sentenced to 22 months of house arrest in connection with a stabbing more than three years ago.
Kevin Bacchus was handed the conditional sentence, along with two years probation, on Tuesday morning at the Sarnia courthouse. He also received a weapons prohibition for 10 years.
In October of 2019, when Bacchus was 48, he was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon following an altercation that left a 37-year-old man with serious injuries.
Bacchus was found guilty of assault in September of 2022. The second charge was stayed.
In his decision, Superior Court Justice Russell Raikes detailed how Bacchus sprayed the victim with bear spray, stabbed and cut the man, and embedded the tip of a knife in the man's head.
Raikes said even if there was a struggle between the two parties, who had a history of violence and bad blood, he found that Bacchus was the aggressor in this circumstance and that his response was unreasonable.