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  Convicted Calgary reservist to appeal conviction and sentence

  Veteran Canadian Forces reservist Darryl Watts, convicted for his role in a deadly training accident in Afghanistan, will appeal both his sentence and conviction.

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  Calgary reservist avoids jail time over deadly Afghanistan training accident

  A Canadian Forces reservist has avoided jail for his role in a deadly training accident in Afghanistan three years ago. But Maj. Darryl Watts is being demoted by two ranks to lieutenant and is to receive a severe reprimand.

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  Jail vs. reprimand: judge to decide fate of Calgary reservist in February

  t's now up to a military judge to decide if a reservist convicted in a deadly training accident in Afghanistan is a man with no remorse who deserves to be punished or an officer who shoulders little blame for what happened.

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  Dead soldier's mother tells sentencing: 'Two people died on the field that day'

  Janet Baker says her life ended the day her son died in a training accident in Afghanistan nearly three years ago. The mother of Cpl. Josh Baker was so emotionally fragile that she was already crying as she was assisted by a soldier on her way to speak at the sentencing of a Calgary reservist convicted in her son's death.

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  Calgary reservist Maj. Darryl Watts found not guilty of manslaughter

  A military jury has found a Calgary reservist not guilty of manslaughter, but guilty of negligent performance and unlawfully causing bodily harm, more than two years after a deadly training accident in Afghanistan.

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  Military jury still deliberating in case of Calgary reservist

  A fourth day of deliberations will be required to determine the fate of a Calgary reservist charged following a fatal training mishap in Afghanistan in 2010.

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  Soldier's manslaughter case now in hands of military jury

  The fate of Maj. Darryl Watts, a Canadian reservist charged in a fatal training accident in Afghanistan, has been placed in the hands of a military jury.

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  Soldier wounded in Afghan training accident thought Taliban were attacking

  A soldier wounded during a fatal training accident in Afghanistan more than two years ago told a Calgary court martial Tuesday that he thought his platoon was under attack by the Taliban.