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Article content Family and friends of a 13-year-old who was fatally stabbed by a stranger in 2016 gathered in a B.C. Supreme Court room in New Westminster to hear a judge reject an argument from her killer that he be found not criminally responsible for the attack. Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes ruled against Gabriel Klein’s argument that he suffered a mental disorder that made him unable to appreciate the nature of his actions or that they were wrong. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Man who stabbed two B.C. students is criminally re...

  VANCOUVER -- A judge has rejected the possibility of a finding of not criminally responsible for the man who fatally stabbed a young teen at Abbotsford Senior Secondary School and seriously injured another student in 2016. Gabriel Klein was convicted in March 2020 of the second degree murder of 13-year-old Letisha Reimer and the aggravated assault of another student. The defence of NCR was not raised during his trial, but before sentencing, the court was told Klein wanted to pursue the possibility of being found not criminally responsible. In her decision, Associate Chief Justice Heath...

Klein's testimony was "wholly unreliable," she said Thursday, and psychosis is not the only explanation for the attack. He was convicted last year for the second-degree murder of 13-year-old Letisha Reimer and the aggravated assault of her friend in the rotunda of Abbotsford Senior Secondary in 2016. "Most of the inconsistencies do not seem attributable to the normal frailties of memory or the distinctive features of Mr. Klein's mental health history or status," Holmes said as she read part of her judgment out loud. "Rather, they show a selective abandoning or denying of details that do not s...

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A lawyer for a man convicted of stabbing two high school students in Abbotsford, B.C., said his client didn't have the capacity to

A lawyer for a man convicted of stabbing two high school students in Abbotsford, B.C., says his client didn't have the capacity to understand what he did was wrong because of a mental disorder.