Canadian musician Scott Jones tells his story in the 2018 NFB documentary film Love, Scott (Photo by Laura Marie Wayne) |
Nova Scotia gay
musician and choral conductor Scott Jones was stabbed in the back and throat
slashed outside a New Glasgow club in October 2013. Nineteen-year-old Shane
Edward Matheson was charged with attempted murder, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The stabbing
severed Jones’ spinal cord, leaving Jones paralyzed from the waist down. Yet
when he read his victim impact statement in Nova Scotia Supreme Court during
sentencing, Jones told Matheson, “Shane, nothing can justify what you've done
to me, but I forgive you for what you have done."