It's the closing chapter in a long saga for the family of Raymond Ellis.
A judge has sentenced two of the men convicted of fatally stabbing the 25-year-old to 15 and 14 years in prison, less time served.
That means John Tshiamala and Evens Belleville, who have spent years in custody, will have to spend about three and four years in a federal prison before being eligible for parole.
In his remarks, the judge said he was imposing a longer sentence than asked by the Crown because neither man showed any remorse for his actions.
Ellis was stabbed to death on Oct. 23, 2005 soon after he walked into the Aria nightclub on St. Denis St., known as a hangout for street gang members.
Several members of a very large group and dressed in white t-shirts and wearing blue bandanas spotted Ellis, and mistook him for a rival gang member who had killed one of their friends.
Ellis, a recent Dawson College graduate who had just opened his own business was warned he was in "blue territory" and told to leave. Within seconds the gang attacked Ellis.
The prosecution claimed as many as 25 to 30 people punched and kicked the young man. He was stabbed 11 times in the back, dying of his injuries.
Multiple trials
This is the second trial for Tshiamala and Belleville who are the last to be convicted of Ellis's death.
In 2009 they were among a group of five suspects being tried when a judge ended the case with a stay of proceedings because a witness refused to testify, and the judge felt the prosecution was lying about evidence.
When the Court of Appeal ordered a retrial, Mclee Charles and Ernso Theobrun decided to plead guilty to manslaughter instead of going through court proceedings.
Gregory Dardignac was convicted of second-degree murder in 2008 and sentenced as an adult to a life sentence. He is eligible for parole next year.
