{"id":103248,"date":"2017-05-20T03:49:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T07:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=103248"},"modified":"2017-05-20T03:49:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T07:49:34","slug":"mother-tells-daughters-killer-to-burn-in-hell-asks-judge-to-show-no-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/20\/mother-tells-daughters-killer-to-burn-in-hell-asks-judge-to-show-no-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother tells daughter’s killer to burn in hell, asks judge to show no mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The mother of a 16-year-old girl who was brutally stabbed to death by a spurned ex stared the young man down in court on Friday, telling him to \u201cburn in hell.\u201d (Photo: Hannah Leflar\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

REGINA \u2014 The mother of a 16-year-old girl who was brutally stabbed to death by a spurned ex stared the young man down in court on Friday, telling him to \u201cburn in hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShow him no mercy,\u201d Janet Leflar told the judge presiding over the sentencing hearing of the 19-year-old, who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the death of Leflar’s only child, Hannah.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will never know my daughter as an adult. I’ve lost my entire future because of this, a future that revolved around my daughter’s plans. My future is now a blank wall.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sobs were heard throughout court as Leflar said that in addition to killing Hannah, he had \u201cmurdered my future grandchildren.\u201d<\/p>\n

Justice Jennifer Pritchard will ultimately determine whether the young man, who was 16 at the time of the crime, will be sentenced as a youth or an adult.<\/p>\n

On Friday, relatives and friends described the loss they have felt since the girl was killed.<\/p>\n

Hannah’s father, Jeff Leflar, wept as his wife, Lore, read a prepared statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur pain is so raw, so real, we don’t think we can go on,\u201d she said, clutching onto a tissue. \u201cWe pray we are reunited, only then our pain will end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lore said Hannah was an honours student who just before her death had been named the top of her class for Grade 10: \u201cShe never collected her award.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout the statements, the young man stared straight ahead.<\/p>\n

The sentencing hearing has been told that after their break-up, the youth had trouble coping with being dumped. When she started dating a different boy, he hatched a plan called \u201cProject Zombify\u201d to recruit friends to help him attack the couple with bats and knives.<\/p>\n

That attack never took place because Leflar and that boyfriend broke up, but the youth kept tabs on her by creating a dummy Facebook account to monitor her posts.<\/p>\n

When he saw she had a new boyfriend, the youth hid outside her house and waited for her to walk home from school, then followed her inside and stabbed her to death with a hunting knife.<\/p>\n

Her body was found by her stepfather, Wade Anderson.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am sick to my stomach to learn of the details of how she died, you cannot unread or unsee that,\u201d Sharon Leflar, Hannah’s aunt, told court.<\/p>\n

Janet Leflar she now suffers from depression and had to quit a career she spent 12 years building.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am bitter and angry,\u201d she said, adding she has to take medication every day in order to get to sleep.<\/p>\n

Closing arguments will be held Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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