No jail time for man who fatally stabbed teen outside Surrey high school

A antheral who fatally stabbed a Surrey teen extracurricular his precocious schoolhouse 2 years agone won’t walk immoderate further clip down bars.

The offender, whose individuality is covered by a work prohibition due to the fact that helium was a insignificant astatine the clip of the killing, pleaded blameworthy to manslaughter successful the Nov. 22, 2022, stabbing of 18-year-old Mehakpreet Sethi extracurricular Tamanawis Secondary School.

He was primitively charged with second-degree execution but pleaded blameworthy to the lesser charge.

In January, helium was handed a condemnation of 2 years little a time of assemblage supervision, aft recognition for 12 days of pre-sentence jailhouse time. He was besides fixed a 10-year firearms ban.

At a sentencing proceeding past month, the tribunal heard the offender was a pupil astatine the schoolhouse astatine the time, portion Sethi was not.

Sethi’s woman had told him that the offender had disrespected her, and Sethi and respective different radical went to the schoolhouse to face him, the tribunal heard.

The offender approached Sethi with a radical of six to 10 different boys, starring to an altercation that turned carnal erstwhile 1 of them pushed Sethi.

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In the people of the confrontation, Sethi either pushed oregon grabbed the accused, who responded by stabbing him erstwhile successful the thorax earlier driving distant successful his conveyance and leaving Sethi lying connected the ground, the tribunal heard.

Sethi died successful infirmary of a stab coiled to an artery that fed his heart.

Police aboriginal recovered Sethi’s humor connected the offender’s covering and a knife. The tribunal besides heard however the offender had sent a Snapchat connection to a person reading, “Bro, I conscionable shanked the kid successful the parking lot. You gonna person to conscionable maine aboriginal oregon smt, bro. I gotta fell out.”

The offender told a psychiatrist the incidental was self-defence, and helium had not intended to termination Sehti.

Prosecutors acknowledged that determination was an constituent of panic successful the offender’s actions and that Sethi, who was larger, approached him successful a threatening mode with respective different people.