Colby Cosh: How the Supreme Court guaranteed light sentences for impulsive teen killers

I’d like to declare it for the record: I’m not happy that chronicling unnatural judicial outrages has become a full-time job for several National Post writers. But, dammit, the judges just keep serving them up hot and fresh. Today’s meal comes to you from the kitchen of the B.C. Court of Appeal, which on Friday overturned the life sentence given by a trial court to the teenaged killers of Pauly Prestbakmo. Prestbakmo, a 45-year-old auto mechanic in Surrey, B.C., was butchered randomly in a mall parking lot on Aug. 16, 2019. To quote directly from the decision of the appeal court, which contains overtones of regret and frustration: Read More