The father of a 17-year-old girl stabbed to death in an Alberta classroom said he hopes her killer rots in hell.

Dale Winkler told the hearing that Jennifer Winkler’s loved ones have been in mourning since she was attacked in 2021 by a high school classmate in Leduc, south of Edmonton.

He then threw a crumpled piece of paper at Dylan Pountney and walked out of the courtroom in Wetaskiwin, Alberta.

Pountney, 22, periodically wiped tears from his face as impact statements were read out in the courtroom.

In July, he was convicted of second-degree murder.

The trial heard that there was a break during a social studies lesson when Pountney, then 19, began attacking a classmate sitting at her desk.

She died from massive blood loss from five wounds to the neck and shoulder.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published on September 5, 2024.