Porciello, who worked at Templeton Secondary School in Vancouver, left behind a 10-year-old son.
The judge also ordered a lifetime firearm prohibition for Poepl.
Over the course of the sentencing hearings that began in March, the judge heard victim impact statements from Porciello s family and friends all of which had a similar theme, according to her cousin. She was pure love. She was fierce. She was smart. She was intelligent. She believed in everybody, Iuliano said.
Porciello s brother has previously said that she and Poepl had an on-and-off relationship but Nicole had broken things off in the months before her death.
BURNABY, B.C. Holidays have been the hardest for the family of Nicole Porciello. Carmine Porciello doesn’t think he’ll ever get used to his little sister not being around anymore. “When you sit down for a family dinner, it’s hard not to notice her seat is empty,” he told CTV News Vancouver on Sunday. “Where she would have been, she’s not there.” Porciello, also known as Nicole Hasselmann, died in November 2018 after being thrown out of a vehicle along Barnet Highway in Burnaby. According to an agreed statement of facts, the SUV was crashed deliberately by Jan Poepl, her on-again, off-again boyfriend for some seven years.