Prosecutors sought a prison term of three years and five months for Iwamasa, who was the first of five defendants to reach a plea deal in the case and the last to be sentenced.
Ahead of Iwamasa’s sentencing, Perry’s mother and sisters submitted letters thanking the judge and telling her where they stood on Iwamasa’s sentencing.
“I have no sympathy for Kenny Iwamasa,” wrote his sister Caitlin Morrison, adding that when Iwamasa left Perry the night he died, he was “either escaping from something he knew he had done or he was willfully abandoning a vulnerable person in a dangerous situation”.
Perry’s other sister Madeline Morrison told the judge in a letter that she believed Iwamasa was “more culpable” than ketamine dealer Jasveen Sangha.
Suzanne Morrison said that Iwamasa’s “most important job” was to be her son’s companion and guardian in his fight against addiction and ensure that Perry remained drug free.
She added that Iwamasa knew that if he felt unduly pressured, he could call a number of people in Perry’s orbit and “reinforcements would be on the way, and his job would be safe”.
Instead of protecting Perry, he aided and abetted illegal drug taking and arranged for one source of supply, then another, she wrote.
“We trusted a man without a conscience, and my son paid the price,” she wrote.
