Teen sentenced to 10 months in custody for role in fatal stabbing of Halifax student
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Halifax teen gets 10 months in custody, 17 months supervision for role in fatal stabbing of Ahmad Al Marrach, 16, in brutal 2024 parkade attack over a girl.
A 17-year-old Halifax-area boy has been sentenced 10 months in a youth detention centre for his role in the stabbing death of a high school student during a brawl over a girl.
On Friday, provincial youth court Judge Mark Heerema also sentenced the accused to 17 months of supervision in the community, during which he will continue receiving intensive rehabilitative treatment to deal with mental health issues.
Heerema described the crime as “senseless, tragic and profoundly unfair.”
The 27-month sentence was added to the 15 months the young offender has spent in custody since 16-year-old Ahmad Al Marrach was murdered in a parkade next to the Halifax Shopping Centre on April 22, 2024.
The young offender pleaded guilty to manslaughter in October, having admitted he was one of four teens who attacked Al Marrach. The identities of all four of the accused are protected from publication under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
Each of them was initially charged with second-degree murder.
During previous court hearings, Heerema was shown a series videos showing the group attack and murder. The images were recorded by surveillance cameras in the parkade and by one of the accused — a girl with a cellphone who was 14 at the time.
“It does not get easier to see such cruelty,” Heerema told the court Friday, adding that Al Marrach was the victim of an ambush.
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