NORTH BATTLEFORD – A new charge against a woman who was convicted in Tiki Laverdiere’s murder have been stayed.
In May 2020, Takakenew was sentenced to 18 months in jail on a charge of accessory after the fact to Laverdiere’s murder. After she was released, she was charged by Cut Knife RCMP with stealing a 2019 Hyundai in the R. M. of Cut Knife in July 2023.
A trial on the theft charge was scheduled in North Battleford Provincial Court for April 3, but the trial didn’t proceed. Instead, the charge was stayed on April 1.
Mavis Takakenew is one of 10 people who were charged in Tiki Laverdiere’s murder in 2019.
Her son, Samuel Takakenew, was sentenced in December 2021, to time served on a charge of accessory to murder in Laverdiere's death. After being released, Samuel Takaknew, was arrested in September 2022 and charged with break and enter into a home in North Battleford. In January, he was given a nine-month Conditional sentence order to be served in the community and placed on probation.
Samuel Takakenew breached that conditional sentence order and the Crown took no action and the matter was concluded.
There is still a publication ban on all the details in Tiki Laverdiere's homicide case because there is one person left to stand trial.
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