Guilty plea expected in UBC Okanagan homicide [Video]

The man accused in a sudden, savage, fatal attack on a UBC Okanagan security guard is expected to plead guilty to manslaughter.

Twenty-four-year-old Harmandeep Kaur was working an early morning shift on February 26, 2022, when she was assaulted.

At the time, Dante Ognibene-Hebbourn was arrested under the Mental Health Act.

After Kaur died from her injuries, he was charged with second-degree murder. He is now expected to plead down to the lesser charge.

The Crown wouldn’t elaborate on why the charges were knocked down.

“Except in rare cases where the Assistant Deputy Attorney General determines it’s in the public interest to do so, we do not disclose reasons behind the exercise of our prosecutorial discretion, including decisions relating to file resolution,” B.C. Prosecution Service spokesperson Damienne Darby said in an email.

Shortly after Kaur’s death, Ognibene-Hebbourn’s father Nicholas Hebbourn told Global News that he had serious concerns about his son’s mental health. He said he had called …