Guilty plea expected in UBC Okanagan homicide

The antheral accused successful a sudden, savage, fatal onslaught connected a UBC Okanagan information defender is expected to plead blameworthy to manslaughter.

Twenty-four-year-old Harmandeep Kaur was moving an aboriginal greeting displacement connected February 26, 2022, erstwhile she was assaulted.

At the time, Dante Ognibene-Hebbourn was arrested nether the Mental Health Act.

After Kaur died from her injuries, helium was charged with second-degree murder. He is present expected to plead down to the lesser charge.

The Crown wouldn’t elaborate connected wherefore the charges were knocked down.

“Except successful uncommon cases wherever the Assistant Deputy Attorney General determines it’s successful the nationalist involvement to bash so, we bash not disclose reasons down the workout of our prosecutorial discretion, including decisions relating to record resolution,” B.C. Prosecution Service spokesperson Damienne Darby said successful an email.

Shortly aft Kaur’s death, Ognibene-Hebbourn’s begetter Nicholas Hebbourn told Global News that helium had superior concerns astir his son’s intelligence health. He said helium had called for a wellness cheque connected him the time earlier Kaur’s death.

“I had asked them to travel prime him up. I asked them to instrumentality him to the hospital,” helium said. “I had explained to them for six hours implicit the telephone that I was successful fearfulness that helium was going to wounded himself.“

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However, helium ne'er imagined that Ognibene-Hebbourn mightiness wounded idiosyncratic else, helium added.

Hebbourn besides said that helium and his lad some worked connected campus, and they knew Kaur well.

“I’m a graveyard displacement absorption supervisor. I woody with information 8 hours each azygous night, 5 days a week,” helium said.

“This pistillate became our friend. That was 1 of Dante’s favourite information guards.”

At the clip of her death, radical who knew Kaur said that she dreamed of 1 time attending UBC Okanagan arsenic a pupil to go a paramedic. She was remembered arsenic benignant and compassionate.

“I conscionable can’t comprehend wherefore it happened,” said Kuljit Pabla, a household member.

Ognibene-Hebbourn is expected to plead blameworthy to manslaughter connected May 13. His sentencing is scheduled to travel passim the time and wrapper up connected May 14.