BC Mass-Stabbing Killer Apologizes to Victims, Cites ‘Enormous’ Drug Use

BC Mass-Stabbing Killer Apologizes to Victims, Cites ‘Enormous’ Drug Use
Yannick Bandaogo (L) appears in court before Justice Geoffrey Gaul in New Westminster, B.C., on May 29, 2023 in this artist's sketch. The Canadian Press/Jane Wolsak
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The man who committed a deadly mass stabbing at a library in North Vancouver, B.C., two years ago, has apologized to each of his victims by name at his sentencing hearing.

Yannick Bandaogo’s lawyer says his client cannot explain a motive for the attack that killed one woman and wounded several other people, but in his statement, the 30-year-old told the court of a troubled childhood that led him into drug use.