B.C. man who killed and dismembered his wife sentenced to 16 years

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A B.C. man who killed his woman and dismembered her assemblage has been sentenced to 16 years successful prison.

With in installments for clip served, Obnes Regis will service an further 12 years down bars.

Regis, 52, pleaded blameworthy to manslaughter and interfering pinch quality remains respective days into his proceedings successful nan decease of his wife, Surrey teacher-librarian Naomi Onotera.

In handing down nan sentence, a B.C. Supreme Court justness added that his migration position successful Canada was successful jeopardy. The tribunal has antecedently heard that he had been ordered deported to Haiti aggregate times since 2011.

The tribunal had antecedently heard nan gruesome specifications of Onotera’s death.

Her charismatic origin of decease remains unknown, arsenic Regis trim her assemblage into pieces and took transit pinch their young girl to dispose of it successful various Metro Vancouver locations, according to an admittance of undisputed facts entered astatine trial.

Pre-trial video grounds obtained by Global News showed Regis telling Langley RCMP that he struck Onotera during an statement astir putting nan two-year-old woman to furniture successful August 2021.

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“When I deed her, she fell down,” he told constabulary successful a videotaped interview. “A large loss, large loss, it’s hard. A large loss.”

In nan first days of his trial, earlier Regis changed his plea to guilty, a DNA master testified that Onotera’s DNA was recovered connected a mitre saw seized from nan family’s beforehand lawn.

Regis apologized to Onotera’s family successful a written connection publication by his lawyer during his sentencing hearing, prompting nan victim’s sister to large wind retired of nan courtroom.