CP NewsAlert: Teen who set girl on fire at Saskatoon high school gets 3-year sentence

By Canadian Press on March 16, 2026.

SASKATOON — A Saskatoon judge has sentenced a teen girl to three years for setting a fellow student on fire in a school hallway.

Three years is the maximum sentence for attempted murder under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

The girl must serve two years in intensive rehabilitative custody followed by one year in the community with supervision.

The sentence was jointly recommended by both Crown and defence lawyers, after the 16-year-old pleaded guilty last year.

The victim was 15 when she was set on fire in the lunchtime attack at Evan Hardy Collegiate in September 2024.

Court heard the friendship between the two girls spiralled into obsession and threats, before the offender doused the victim with lighter fluid and set her ablaze.

More coming.

Jeremy Simes, The Canadian Press

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