Verdict expected Friday for teen accused of murder in Toronto swarming attack on homeless man [Video]

A judge is expected to deliver a verdict this afternoon for one of the teen girls accused in the fatal swarming attack on a homeless Toronto man in 2022.

The girl, who was 14 at the time of the attack, was one of eight teens charged in Kenneth Lee’s death.

Her second-degree murder trial wrapped up in early April after the Crown rejected her attempt to plead guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.

Prosecutors have alleged that the girl was the one who inflicted Lee’s fatal wound by stabbing the 59-year-old with a knife or a small pair of scissors during the December 2022 attack.

No knife was ever recovered as part of the investigation, the trial heard, and the defence has argued the girl didn’t have a knife at any point that night.

Security footage of the swarming attack at a downtown Toronto parkette was central to the …