WETASKIWIN, Alta. – A judge says a man who stabbed and killed a 17-year-old girl in an Alberta high school must serve 12 years of a life sentence before he can apply for parole.
Dylan Pountney was convicted earlier this year of second-degree murder.
He was 19 when he stabbed Jennifer Winkler as she sat in a classroom at the school in Leduc, south of Edmonton, in 2021.
Horrified students and a teacher witnessed the killing.
A Crown prosecutor asked that Pountney serve 15 years before he can apply for parole, while the defence recommended 10 years.
The girl’s father told the sentencing hearing that he hopes Pountney rots in hell.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 5, 2024.
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