A woman charged in connection with the death of Cynthia Crampton — the victim of Saskatoon’s seventh homicide of 2016 — has been sentenced after pleading guilty to accessory after the fact to murder.
Tammy Lynn Poffley, 53, entered her plea on Wednesday in Saskatoon Court of Queen’s Bench and received a provincial jail sentence of two years less a day after Justice Gerald Allbright accepted the Crown and defence’s joint sentencing submission. He gave Poffley an enhanced remand credit of 438 days (1.5 days for every day she spent on remand), leaving her 10 more months to serve.
Allbright ordered a publication ban on any evidence and submissions heard at Poffley’s sentencing hearing, to remain in place until the man accused of killing Crampton, Tyler Hurd, has been dealt with by the court. Hurd is charged with first-degree murder; his case has yet to go to trial.
According to police news releases, Crampton, 55, was found dead on June 3, 2016 in a home on Galloway Road in Saskatoon’s Stonebridge neighbourhood. Poffley and Hurd were arrested two days later near Asquith.
Poffley’s sentence also includes a one-year probation period following her release from jail.
“You couldn’t have made a worse judgment call,” Allbright told Poffley during his ruling, urging her to make better decisions in the future.
Shortly after Crampton’s death, friends and family members set up a GoFundMe page to help support her two daughters. A friend told the StarPhoenix that a trust has also been set up in Crampton’s name at Affinity Credit Union.
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