Blake Schreiner sentenced for murder of Tammy Brown, ineligible for parole for 17 years

Blake Schreiner has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for at least 17 years. 

Justice Ron Mills handed down the sentence in Saskatoon Court of Queens' Bench on Friday morning. 

The sentencing comes after Schreiner was found guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of his partner Tammy Brown on Jan. 29, 2019.

The ruling came down on June 10 of this year. 

Thirty-nine-year-old Brown, a mother of two children, was found dead in her home in the River Heights neighbourhood of Saskatoon in 2019. 

From the start of the trial in March 2020, Schreiner never denied that he stabbed Brown more than 80 times. But he claimed that he was suffering from a mental disorder at the time and was not criminally responsible for his actions.

In his guilty decision, Justice Ron Mills said the defence did not establish the mental disorder claim. But Mills also did not accept the Crown position that the homicide was "planned and deliberate" — a key element in a first-degree murder conviction.