David Bagshaw had his appeal to alter the adult sentence he received denied by the Toronto Court of Appeal. He was just 4 days from his 18th birthday when he gruesomely murdered Stefanie Rengel. Bagshaw lured Rengel out of her home before stabbing her 6 times with a kitchen knife on New Year's Day 2008. In a related note, Bagshaw's girlfriend at the time is serving a life in person sentence with no chance of parole for seven years. (The maximum sentence for someone her age.)
The Toronto Court of Appeal got this one right. There is no way the Bagshaw deserves to be let off in such a short time. Not for a murder of that nature. A point which Bagshaw's defence tried to stress at the time of the original sentencing period was that David's girlfriend at the time was described as a puppet master of sorts. Trying to convince the jury that Bagshaw did not premeditate these attacks by himself. The motion was disregarded quickly because while his girlfriend ( Melissa Todorovic) may have planned the attack, Bagshaw was still the one who ended up carrying out the act in an absolutely disgustingly painful way. I find it absolutely unbelievable that the defence was trying to push for Bagshaw to be tried as a youth with a maximum sentence of 10 years which would include the time he would spend in pretrial custody. The government got this one right.
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