Guilty plea in homicide case where man's body discovered in ditch

Austin Southworth, 27, pleaded guilty to manslaughter Friday for his role in violently beating a man with a baseball bat and leaving him to die in an Edmonton ditch over a debt owed to a sex worker.
“Brad did not deserve this,” Southworth said as he read an apology after details of the case were heard in Court of Queen’s Bench.
Brad MacDonald, 37, was found dead in a ditch near Stony Plain Road and Winterburn Road on April 10, 2016.
According to an agreed statement of facts, Ma