Man awaits sentencing after North Vancouver mass stabbing
Posted July 5, 2023 8:32 am.
Last Updated July 5, 2023 8:34 am.
It will be an emotional few days in court in New Westminster beginning Wednesday.
The sentencing hearing for the man who pleaded guilty to a mass stabbing in North Vancouver two years ago is expected to begin.
Yannick Bandaogo was arrested in March 2021 after a woman was killed and several other people were hurt in the stabbing rampage that began outside the Lynn Valley library branch.
This past May, Bandaogo pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree murder, attempted murder, and aggravated assault.
A statement read in court at that time stated Bandaogo didn’t know any of the victims.
The attack was widely condemned as “disturbing” and “heinous.”
Crown Counsel Jean-Benoit Deschamps says Bandaogo’s actions that day “had the intent of causing death.”
“When you could hear Mr. Bandaogo pleading guilty – hopefully, the community as a whole and the victim will be able to start the healing process with those guilty pleas entered, and not relive through a fulsome trial the trauma that happened on that day,” he said.
