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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.
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...
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...
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The Globe and Mail Amy Smart Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer HO/The Canadian Press A Crown prosecutor says there’s no reliable evidence to support an argument that a man who stabbed two high school girls in Abbotsford, B.C., was having a psychotic break and didn’t realize they were human. Gabriel Klein was convicted of second-degree murder and aggravated assault in March fo...
NEW WESTMINSTER — A Crown prosecutor says there’s no reliable evidence to support an argument that a man who stabbed two high school girls in Abbotsford, B.C., was having a psychotic break and didn’t realize they were human. Gabriel Klein was convicted of second-degree murder and aggravated assault in March for the 2016 attack that […]