Three schools in Abbotsford initiated security procedures Wednesday morning after a student at Yale Secondary School encountered a man with a knife inside a school bathroom.
VANCOUVER A judge has sentenced Gabriel Klein to life in prison with no chance of parole for 16 years for killing 13-year-old Letisha Reimer inside Abbotsford Secondary School. Crown had asked for 18 years, and defence asked for a 12-year sentence. Klein was also sentenced to seven years to be served concurrently for stabbing Reimer’s friend and classmate, who survived the Nov. 1, 2016 attack and whose name is protected by a publication ban. Reimer’s parents were in court for sentencing and asked family spokesperson Dave Teixeira to read a prepared statement for the media. The statement read in part: “No amount of jail time will bring back my daughter Letisha, but I’m grateful the court arrived at this decision today. This was a long, heavy journey that was made more difficult by a process that was tilted to the whims of the criminal.”