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Szendrei murder
Therapist may have kept boy from killing, court hears Tom Zytaruk Now staff Twitter @tomzytaruk
Laura Szendrei wouldn’t have been attacked had her killer seen a therapist in the months prior to her murder. That’s what a forensic psychologist told the court during the hearing into whether the North Delta high school student’s murderer should be sentenced as an adult or a youth. The hearing will continue on Wednesday in Surrey provincial court. The young man, whose identity is shielded by the Youth Criminal Justice Act, pleaded guilty last year to second-degree murder, for killing the 15-year-old girl in 2010. Szendrei was struck over the head at least three times with a metal pipe as she struggled to escape, along a path in North Delta’s Mackie Park. The North Delta man, who wasn’t quite 18 when he killed Szendrei, is now 20. If sentenced as an adult, his sentence will be life in prison without eligibility to apply for parole for seven years. If sentenced as a youth, he faces a seven-year sentence, with a maximum four of those years to be served in prison and the remainder in the community, under supervision. Justice Robin Baird heard this past week that the young man had sexually attacked three women in Burns Bog between April and July 2010, with escalating severity, before killing Szendrei in September. The psychologist said that the young man seemed normal on the outside, but “still waters run deep.” (Photos: GORD GOBLE)
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