After entering a guilty plea back in May, former Herbert resident, Shaun Ross Wiebe was sentenced in a Vernon courtroom last Friday.
The sentencing comes five years after a resident in Vernon, B.C., Heather Barker, was found unresponsive inside her home.
The court, following the joint submission of Crown Counsel and the defence, handed down a four-year jail sentence and a ten-year ban on firearms.
After sentencing, Wiebe received credit for 200 days spent in custody, meaning he was sentenced to a total of 1,261 days.
He is also required to provide a DNA sample.
The former Southwest man graduated from the College of Pharmacy at the University of Saskatchewan in 2002.
Initially from the Herbert area, Wiebe moved to British Columbia to pursue his career as a pharmacist and at one point owned and operated his own pharmacy in Vernon.