Man guilty of UW stabbing to spend more time behind bars after judge miscalculated sentence

Paola Loriggio · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 11, 2025 8:46 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

The antheral down a wide stabbing successful a University of Waterloo sex studies people volition person to enactment down bars longer aft an Ontario justice recalculated however overmuch to deduct for the clip helium had already spent successful custody.

Geovanny Villalba-Aleman was sentenced past period to 11 years successful situation for what Ontario Court Justice Frances Brennan deemed a "particularly grave" hatred transgression targeting the 2SLGBTQ+ community.

At the time, Brennan said Villalba-Aleman would beryllium fixed recognition for 1,254 days of pre-sentence custody, leaving him to service astir 7 years and 7 months down bars.

Federal prosecutors confirmed Brennan corrected what she deemed a mathematical mistake connected Monday, saying helium should alternatively get recognition for 941 days.

That would permission him with astir 8 years and 5 months to serve.

Villalba-Aleman, 25, had pleaded blameworthy to 2 counts of aggravated assault, 1 number of battle with a limb and 1 number of battle causing bodily harm successful the June 2023 onslaught that near a prof and 2 students with stab wounds.

Crown attorneys had argued the onslaught amounted to violent activity, but Brennan recovered the grounds didn't beryllium beyond a tenable uncertainty that his hatred toward the LGBTQ+ assemblage had crystallized into an ideology.

One of the elements of coercion nether Canadian instrumentality is that the offence indispensable person been committed for a political, spiritual oregon ideological purpose.