Pond Inlet man to serve six years for killing his partner

Emma Tranter · CBC News

· Posted: May 27, 2025 6:16 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

A Pond Inlet, Nunavut, antheral has been handed a condemnation of 9 years successful situation for killing his partner.

Daryl Quaraq stabbed Joanne Nutarak connected April 8, 2023. She was the parent to his 4 children. 

Nutarak died from a stab coiled 8 to 10 centimetres deep, according to a determination from Nunavut Justice Mark Mossey. 

Crown and defence lawyers submitted a associated condemnation of 9 years, which Mossey accepted successful his decision. Because of clip already served, Quaraq has conscionable nether six years left. 

Between 2013 and 2022, Quaraq was charged and convicted aggregate times for harming Nutarak. She would often enactment astatine her aunt's location erstwhile she didn't consciousness safe, which is wherever Quaraq killed her, Mossey wrote. 

Quaraq was initially charged with second-degree murder, but he pleaded blameworthy to the lesser complaint of manslaughter aft a solution was reached by Crown and defence lawyers earlier this year, the determination said. 

Quaraq admitted to sidesplitting Nutarak, saying helium has small representation of the events due to the fact that of his level of intoxication. 

"The closure the blameworthy plea offers, it is hoped, volition pb to further healing that is needed by each those touched by this tragedy," Mossey wrote. 

Mossey said determination were respective issues with the Crown's case, which led to the associated submission. Those issues included "continuity of evidence, lack of witnesses, alleged deficiencies successful the archetypal investigation and the beingness of a imaginable alternate suspect." 

Mossey besides noted the Crown asked that the tribunal stress that a nine-year condemnation should not service arsenic a precedent for this benignant of case. 

"I americium uncertain that I americium capable to supply specified assurance, arsenic surely counsel whitethorn and volition look to this sentence, successful the future, to formulate a sentencing presumption connected a manslaughter," Mossey wrote.