An Alberta teen who bludgeoned his mother to death with an axe has been sentenced to seven years in custody.
The teen was 17 when he hit his 34-year-old mother, stabbed her several times and threw her down the stairs in May 2009.
He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder shortly after and was sentenced as a youth.
The teen will spend the next four years in custody, followed by three years' supervision.
The Crown agreed to the teen being sentenced under the Youth Criminal Justice Act based on two extensive pyschiatric reports.
Judge Eric Peterson called the death a "brutal, savage, senseless and unexplainable act."