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The Crown appealed, concerned with the legal precedent, and Corkum pled guilty to manslaughter, receiving a six-month sentence. She was released after two months. After her release, she spoke out about spousal abuse, then an all-but-ignored subject.
On February 23, 1992, her body was found in a car on the Halifax waterfront, dead from a single gunshot wound.
A made-for-television film, Life with Billy was produced in 1994. The song Waltz Foreign Jane by Denis Ryan"s 5 Pound Spent.