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Sentence. 6 years in prison (reduced from 13 years) [6][7] Amanda Michelle Todd (November 27, 1996 – October 10, 2012) [8][9] was a 15-year-old Canadian student and victim of cyberbullying who hanged herself at her home in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. A month before her death, Todd posted a video on YouTube in which she used a series of ...
Capital punishment in Canada. Capital punishment in Canada dates to Canada's earliest history, including its period as first a French then a British colony. From 1867 to the elimination of the death penalty for murder on July 26, 1976, 1,481 people had been sentenced to death, and 710 had been executed. Of those executed, 697 were men and 13 women.
Tracy Vaillancourt, a Canada Research Chair in children’s mental health and violence prevention, noting the gender and age of the suspects, described it as atypical for adolescent girls to be involved in an event that could result in a charge of murder. [1] Toronto Mayor John Tory said he was "deeply disturbed" by the killing. [16]
The murders of Nathan O'Brien, Kathryn Liknes and Alvin Liknes occurred on June 29, 2014. Five-year-old Nathan O'Brien and his grandparents, Kathryn and Alvin Liknes, disappeared from the grandparents' Calgary, Alberta home after what police called a "violent incident." [1] An amber alert was issued.
The Bathtub Girls murder took place in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, on January 18, 2003.Two sisters, whose identities along with the victims are protected under Canada's Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) as they were minors at the time of the crime, conspired to murder their alcoholic, neglectful mother and make it appear as if she had accidentally drowned while taking a bath, in order to ...
Accused. Inderdeep Singh Gosal. Paul Stanley Schmidt was a 37-year-old Canadian who was the victim of a fatal stabbing on March 26, 2023, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [1][2][3] The accused, Inderdeep Singh Gosal, age 32, was arrested under charges of second-degree murder, with a hearing scheduled in Vancouver provincial court for ...
Span of crimes. 1980–1981. Country. Canada. Date apprehended. August 12, 1981. Clifford Robert Olson Jr. (January 1, 1940 – September 30, 2011) [1] was a convicted Canadian serial killer who confessed to murdering 11 children and teenagers between the ages of 9 and 18 in the early 1980s. [2]
The following is a list of unsolved murders in Canada.Hundreds of homicides occur across Canada each year, many of which end up as cold cases. [1] In 2021, the country's intentional homicide rate stood at around 2.06 per 100,000 individuals, [2] increasing for the third consecutive year. [3]