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"These offences did their damage not only to the immediate victims as well as to their families and close friends, they also damaged the school community by destroying the sense of security it must be able to foster," Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes said in delivering the sentence Wednesday. Klein received an automatic life sentence and an additional seven-year sentence for the aggravated assault, to be served concurrently. However, he was also given seven years' credit for time served while awaiting trial. The B.C. Supreme Court has heard the girls were in the rotunda that connects ...

Man who killed BC teen not at 'immediate risk' to violently reoffend: lawyer The man who killed a 13−year−old girl and injured her friend at a high school in Abbotsford has been asked to read the victim impact statements before he appears for sentencing next month. Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes told defence lawyer Martin Peters that she would like Gabriel Klein to reflect on the statements that were given by family members during his sentencing hearing this week. Klein was convicted of the second−degree murder of Letisha Reimer and the aggravated assault of the other girl, wh...

A lawyer representing the man who murdered a13-year-old girl in the hallway of her Abbotsford high school says his client is an example of the intergenerational effects of Canada's residential school system.

The lawyer for the man convicted of fatally stabbing a 13-year-old girl at her Abbotsford high school in 2016 is disputing his client's label as being at “high risk to re-offend.”

Parents of teen killed at BC school share grief, anger at sentencing hearing The father of a 13−year−old girl who was murdered at a high school in Abbotsford, B.C., says he doubts the killer will receive a fit sentence for the damage caused to his family by her death. Ulrich Reimer told a sentencing hearing Wednesday for Gabriel Klein in B.C. Supreme Court that he struggles with anger and grief over the death of his daughter Letisha in November 2016. “She fought a horrible pain that day,” he said. "The entire (trial) has been about him and what he’s done. It’s not about him, it�...