November 17th, 2024

CP NewsAlert: Man in mass stabbing at B.C. library gets life, no parole for 15 years

By The Canadian Press on August 31, 2023.

Yannick Bandaogo (left) appears in court before Justice Geoffrey Gaul in New Westminster, B.C. on Monday, May 29, 2023 in this artist's sketch. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jane Wolsak

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. – A man who killed a woman and wounded six other people in a mass stabbing at a library in North Vancouver, B.C., has received a life sentence with no chance of parole for 15 years.

Yannick Bandaogo, 30, pleaded guilty on May 29 to one count of second-degree murder and six counts of attempted murder over the March 2021 attack in and around the public library in Lynn Valley.

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