The man who killed a New Westminster senior almost two years ago has been sentenced.
Twenty-four-year-old Julien Levasseur will spend six years in prison for the June 2015 slaying of Charan Dhandwar.
The 79-year-old woman had been out for an evening walk on 8th Ave. when she was randomly attacked and killed in the street.
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Levasseur was arrested at the scene and charged with second-degree murder.
He entered a guilty plea to a count of manslaughter.
In 2015, the family of Dhandwar said in a statement that they “lost not only our mom but a wife and grandma.”