A child psychiatrist has told a Regina court he's concerned a youth who pleaded guilty to killing 16-year-old Hannah Leflar has psychopathic traits.
Dr. Brent Harold, who began seeing the youth six months after the murder, testified Wednesday at the sentencing hearing for the teen, who is now 19 but was 16 at the time of the crime.
Harold said given the teen's lack of remorse for Leflar's death and his inability to feel empathy, there is concern.
Harold said he's treated thousands of patients, and that psychopathic traits have only been a concern in four or five of them, including this young man.
He described the youth as narcissistic and arrogant, with an often inflated sense of his own importance to people, and that he often saw the world as against him.
Leflar was found stabbed to death in home in Regina in January 2015.
According to an agreed statement of facts made public this week, the teen had trouble getting over it when Leflar broke up with him and stalked her for months.
Court was told that when she started dating a different boy, the spurned youth hatched a plan he called "Project Zombify" to attack the couple with bats and knives.
That didn't happen, largely because Leflar broke up with that boy. When she posted about a new boyfriend on her Facebook page, the youth hid outside her house the next day, waiting until she came home. He followed her inside and murdered her.
The Crown is requesting an adult sentence for the teen, who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder earlier this year.
A second boy has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the case, down from the original charge of first-degree murder. He is expected to be sentenced in September.
(CTV Regina)
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