A man who brutally attacked two Alberta vacation sisters who had rented to his Vancouver Airbnb will not serve additional time behind bars.
On Thursday, Arvin Pasha received a conditional penalty of 22 months to serve in the community, followed by three years of probation.
Pasha pleaded guilty in September for assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily injury for the attack three years ago.
Pasha had first been accused of serious assaults, but pleaded guilty at the slightest accusations just a few days before the start of his trial.
By pronouncing the sentence, the judge of the British Columbia Provincial Court Harbans Dhillon noted that Pasha had no previous judicial record, accepted the responsibility for his guilt plea, had made himself well on deposit and had abstained from the use of cannabis.
The court previously learned that the victims of 23 and 25 were staying for the short -term rental of Pasha on West 3rd avenue in Kitsilano when the attack of May 27, 2022 took place.
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According to a happy declaration of facts established in court, Pasha lived in the two -room apartment at the time and rented a room on Airbnb; The sisters were unaware that he would stay there too.
The court learned that Pasha had been heard saying “they tortured my cat” and “they bait all the cat cats”, while making countries in the corridor outside the unit with a knife of 30 cm early the morning of the attack.
The court learned that he had then burst into the unit. One of the sisters was stabbed in the head, neck and arm, while the other was stabbed in his head, neck and hand.
The impact declarations on the victims of the two sisters, whose identity is protected by a publication prohibition, read during the hearing of determination of Pasha’s sentence in February told the lasting impacts of the attacks, both physically and emotionally.
Pasha’s lawyer had requested parole, which would not have left him any criminal record if he adheres to the conditions, arguing that his client had undergone a mental break on the day of the attack caused by a high consumption of cannabis and has “an unpertified psychotic disorder”.
The Crown argued that a release was contrary to the public interest, given the extreme violence of the offense, but did not seek an additional prison sentence either, recognizing that Pasha’s mental illness left him a “reduced moral guilt”.
Dhillon agreed with the crown.
“A liberation would not manage to adequately communicate to public members who are users of recreational psychoactive substances who are likely to be unfavorable consequences on criminal justice if their involuntary ingestion of excessive psychoactive substances causes or contributes to serious damage,” she said.
Under the terms of Pasha’s conditional penalty, he must live with his mother in Richmond and respect a night curfew for the first 12 months.
It is also forbidden to use alcohol or drugs or have weapons, and cannot come into contact with the victims.
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