A 16-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to attempted murder for splashing a former friend with lighter fluid and setting her on fire in the hallway of a Saskatoon high school.
The attacker also pleaded guilty to unlawfully causing bodily harm of a teacher who came to the victim’s aid at Evan Hardy Collegiate in September 2024.
She sat in court Monday dressed in a hoodie, as court heard the crime was the culmination of a friendship that spiralled into estrangement, harassment and finally violence.
Neither the attacker nor the victim can be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
Justice Krista Zerr asked the accused in court, “Do you understand that by pleading guilty, you are giving up your right to a trial? And so the next step in the process is for me to sentence you. Do you understand that?”…