Two intellectually vulnerable women who beat a man to death have been handed jail sentences that will allow them to serve their time in Manitoba, avoiding longer federal sentences prosecutors asked for that would have sent them to serve their time outside the province.

Cherilyn Dumas, 22, and Calianna Keeper, 21, were initially charged with second-degree murder in the death of Derek Karl Stevenson, 33, whose body was found in a rooming house on Austin Street N. in Winnipeg's Point Douglas area o…