Regina teen who aided in friend’s ex-girlfriend’s murder to be sentenced Nov. 7

Defence lawyer Greg Wilson said the teen should serve his sentence in a youth facility, adding the teen made “bad choices” but was “remorseful.”

Wilson said the day after the murder, the teen sent text messages comparing it to a violent video game. He said that’s not how a mature adult acts, but shows “shortsightedness, immaturity and inappropriateness.”

Court has heard Prockner was upset after Hannah broke up with him in May 2014 and told his friends he wanted to hurt her. Prockner recruited the teen, who had been friends with Hannah, to follow her. He also told the teen to get her to meet him at her house the day she was killed. An agreed statement of facts says both teens had knives but only Prockner stabbed her.

Justice Leann Schwann will sentence the teen on Nov. 7.

She has three options — an adult sentence, a youth sentence or an IRCS order. A youth sentence for second-degree murder means the teen would serve four years in custody and three in the community.

The judge has discretion whether to apply time served on remand and reduce that seven years or ignore it all together.

An IRCS sentence would allow the teen to remain in a youth facility or in the provincial correctional system.

If sentenced as an adult, the teen would be transferred immediately to a federal penitentiary and would have no chance of parole for seven years.

(CJME)

CJME, The Canadian Press

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Regina teen who aided in friend’s ex-girlfriend’s murder to be sentenced Nov. 7

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