A sentencing hearing for a youth who stabbed a 16-year-old girl to death has been told that the day before the murder, he found photos of Hannah Leflar and her newest boyfriend on her Facebook page.
An agreed statement of facts made public by the court says the youth had been in a relationship with Leflar and had trouble with their break-up.
When she started dating a different boy, the spurned youth hatched a plan he called "Project Zombify" to recruit friends to help him attack the couple with bats and knives.
The target would be the new boyfriend, but the youth was prepared to consider Leflar "collateral damage" if she tried to interfere.
That attack never took place because Leflar and the boyfriend broke up, but the youth kept tabs on her by creating a dummy Facebook account to monitor her posts.
When he saw she had a new boyfriend, the youth hid outside her house and waited for her to walk home from school, then followed her inside and stabbed her to death with a hunting knife.
The 19-year-old pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder of Leflar in January 2015, when he was 16 years old.
The Crown is arguing before Justice Jennifer Pritchard that he should be sentenced as an adult while the defence is arguing for a lighter sentence, with a focus on rehabilitation.
On Tuesday, a psychologist testified the youth has said he's sorry for the crime, but the words he used in his apology are open to interpretation.
Elizabeth McGrath, a senior psychologist at the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region, told court she met four times with the youth while he was in custody.
The teen told her: "I think what I did was wrong and I regret it."
McGrath said the "I think" could be explained in two ways — that he doesn't truly think he did anything wrong, or it could just be an expression and the way he talks.
Her report on the youth concluded he has "under-developed emotional social capacity."
Court was also told he has threatened to commit suicide if he is sentenced as an adult. The Crown asked whether that could be seen as manipulative.
McGrath also told court the youth told her he was bullied in school and again in jail, but she also said he is refusing to attend counselling.
A second teen pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the killing of Leflar back in February.
(CJME, CTV Regina)
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