Judge to decide whether 18-year-old will get youth or adult sentence in 2018 murder of Regina teen
CBC
There wasn't an empty seat in a makeshift courtroom at Regina's Conexus Arts Centre Friday, the last day of arguments in a sentencing hearing for a teenager convicted of fatally stabbing a 16-year-old in 2018.
Following final arguments from the Crown and defence lawyers, the teen offered an apology to Erica "Eliza" Hill O'Watch's family and friends watching from the gallery.
"I'm not asking you to forgive and forget because I know what you see when you look at me," the now 18-year-old told the room. "I would like to say sorry for what happened. She didn't deserve what happened to her."
As the teen read his prepared statement aloud, Hill O'Watch's mother, Skye Hill, could be seen shaking her head and rolling her teary eyes.
"That wasn't even an apology, in my opinion," Hill told CBC News after the hearing. "He's sorry for what happened — not sorry for what he did."
Hill O'Watch died moments after being stabbed in the neck at a Cameron Street house party in October 2018.
The 18-year-old man who killed her was 15 at the time, which is why — per the Youth Criminal Justice Act — he still cannot be named.
