A Quebec Youth Court judge is expected to render a decision on Friday on whether the second person convicted of Jannai Dopwell-Bailey’s death will be sentenced as a minor or an adult.
Dopwell-Bailey was 16 when he was attacked and stabbed repeatedly outside his school in Côte-des-Neiges on October 18, 2021. He rushed into the school to seek help and later died in hospital.
The accused was 16 at the time of the murder and in 2023 he was found guilty of second-degree murder in Dopwell-Bailey’s death. The young man cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, as he was a minor at the time of the murder.
The other person in this case, Andrei Donet, was also found guilty of second-degree murder and was sentenced in June to life in prison for the Montreal teen’s death. The 21-year-old will be eligible for parole in 13 years.
Quebec Superior Court Justice Annie Émond said during her sentencing that Donet had two factors working against him, including the severity of the crime and his behaviour after the attack – referring to a video about the crime that was posted to social media.
During his detention amid waiting for his trial, Donet was charged for a violent assault on a fellow inmate
The judge added eight years for the second offence, saying it will be served concurrently with the murder sentence.