Anger, pain and fear are some of the words victims of a party-turned-violent used to describe what they have been dealing with the past four years.

Now they can add the word relief. Lorne Fraser, 27, was sentenced to 15 months in jail for assault, possessing a weapon for dangerous purpose, four counts of aggravated assault and two counts of assault with a weapon. The charges from an incident that took place on Aug. 28, 2005 after he nearly fatally stabbed a 16-year-old and three others at a party on Lower Debeck Road in Naramata.

"I did feel relief until his dad decided to yell at me," said Wayce Winder, who had been stabbed in the leg which required her to go through two blood transfusions. "Now I'm shocked a bit, but at least it's over. That's the best part, it's been a long time."

After the sentence was handed down and Fraser was taken away in handcuffs his father turned and said a expletive to Winder. He called her a liar and said "you told people you had no idea who stabbed you." One of the sheriff's had to step in, allowing Winder and her family and friends to exit the courtroom while warning Fraser's family to not say anything else.

Last August a jury of 12 found Fraser guilty of the attacks; a youth had also been charged for his involvement.

It was heard during the trial that Fraser has passed out on a couch and when one person tried to get him up, he abruptly awoke tossing beer on surrounding partiers. Some of the party-goers asked Fraser to apologize and leave. The mood quickly deteriorated and a video, taped by one of the partiers, was shown to the jury in which they saw Fraser turn to the camera and ask "Are you taping this?" He then punched one of the partiers, knocking him unconscious.

The video then cut to Fraser sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle where he gets punched in the face by one of the partiers before the vehicle departs. It was about 15-20 minutes later when the partiers heard a commotion coming from the dirt driveway. As the group went to investigate they realized it was Fraser and a youth running towards them. Most of the partiers ran towards the youth to disarm him of the pieces of wood he was swinging, but Winder told the jury she ran to Fraser, who she didn't believe to have a weapon, in an attempt to calm him down. It was then that she was stabbed in the thigh, leaving a five-inch gash that carried through to the other side. The blade missed the artery but severed everything else, including the main vein.

"Right after it happened I could taste the blood in my mouth," said Winder while reading her victim impact statement to the court on Tuesday. "I woke up (in the hospital) screaming because of the pain."

The co-accused had been knocked down by the group and Fraser made his way over to him, stabbing four partiers. Fraser stood in court on Tuesday facing the many witnesses and victims of that night saying "I feel terrible the way the night ended the way that it did," and he regrets the events of that evening. Outside the courthouse after the sentencing, Winder said she didn't feel it was much of an apology and that Fraser "didn't take responsibility" or "say sorry" for what he did.

While Winder was the most severely injured and still suffers from the after effects with nerve damage, her close friend and one of the witnesses, Jeff Gagnon, said the incident also had a emotional toll on him. He read his victim impact statement to the court, telling how he always felt like the protector of their group of friends and how seeing Winder almost lose her life was unbearable.

"I can still hear that scream today and see her holding her leg as blood came through it," said Gagnon. "I was scared of losing her."

He also explained how fear of Fraser coming back to hurt them, like many of the others who provided victim impact statements declared, gripped him. In one instance he said that while he was in the hospital for an unrelated, he woke to a figure of a person standing over his bed and believed it to be Fraser coming to hurt him, in reality it had been just his doctor.

Judge Richard Brooke did not feel a conditional sentence would be appropriate and also enacted a two-year probation order once Fraser is released. During that time he is not allowed into Naramata, must not contact any of the victims and will have to pay more than $2,000 in restitution to the victims. The court also heard that Winder is pursuing civil action against Fraser.