Toronto girl who taunted boyfriend into killing teen loses murder appeal

TORONTO – A Toronto teen who sexually blackmailed her boyfriend into killing a 14-year-old girl has lost her appeal against her first-degree murder conviction and sentence.

Melissa Todorovic had argued self-incriminating videotaped statements she gave to police should not have been allowed as evidence at her trial.

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Todorovic was convicted in the murder of Stefanie Rengel – a girl she had never met but considered a rival.

Evidence was that the then-15 year old goaded her 17-year-old boyfriend, David Bagshaw, into killing Rengel.

Bagshaw, also convicted of first-degree murder, stabbed Rengel six times and left her to die in a snowbank on New Year’s Day 2008.

The Ontario Court of Appeal also dismissed Todorovic’s challenge to her life sentence as an adult without parole eligibility for seven years.

(The Canadian Press)