MANDEL: Brampton man tried fentanyl, then a hitman to kill girlfriend
And now the 33-year-old has been sentenced to 16 years behind bars
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K.P. sure was determined to kill T.C. as he’d texted her, “It’s me and u till the end till death do us part.”
K.P. and T.C., their names covered by a court-ordered publication ban, had been a couple since 2019 and opened a business together. But in the fall of 2022, T.C. told him she wanted out.
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Like so many violent domestic abusers before him, he refused to let her go.
He begged her to take him back, repeatedly threatening to kill himself if she didn’t. When she continued to reject him, he decided to kill her instead.
On Oct. 24, 2022, K.P. began researching whether fentanyl can be fatal. T.C. began wondering why her food and drinks had a chemical taste.
In November 2022, K.P’s Google search history showed he visited two websites that confirmed fentanyl was fatal. On Nov. 17 of that year, he brought T.C. chemical-tasting food that made her sick. She went to the hospital despite him trying to convince her not to go. That was the day he texted her “till death do us part.”
Toxicology reports later found fentanyl in her system as well as in the Tim Hortons coffee cup he’d given her. According to Superior Court Justice Renu Mandhane, K.P. administered fentanyl seven times to T.C. between November and December 2022.
“The fact that someone close to me could have tried to drug me – more than once – and then make me feel like it was all in my head is an overwhelming betrayal that’s incredibly difficult to overcome,” T.C. would write in her victim impact statement.
According to the hitman, K.P. confessed to trying to poison T.C. When she threatened to call the police and shut down their business, he hired a hitman to kill her.
After a night of drinking, doing cocaine and smoking weed together, K.P. gave him a key and dropped him off at T.C.’s house where she and her family were all asleep.
The hitman entered her bedroom and began suffocating her with his bare hands. This could have been a tragic tale of a murder but the family dog started to bark, T.C.’s sister walked into the room and her attacker fled the scene.
Following an 18-day trial where he claimed he’d accidentally tried to poison her with fentanyl and only hired the hitman to “scare” T.C., a jury convicted K.P. of all charges on Dec. 16, 2024.
“The attempted murders were planned, deliberate, cold-hearted, and heinous. After the complainant tried to end the relationship, the offender took advantage of the fact that they owned a business together to continue to stalk and harass her. The offender was plotting to kill the complainant for three months, and the crimes took place in the context of an increasingly coercive and controlling relationship,” the judge wrote in her sentencing ruling this week.
“When the complainant continued to rebuff him, he did not leave her alone but rather escalated his violent behaviours by hiring a hitman to strangle her.”
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In her victim impact statement, T.C. said she lives in fear of K.P. being out of prison and is constantly on edge.
“I had plans, goals, and a future that I was working towards, but this experience robbed me of so much – especially time. Time I had to spend just trying to heal from the trauma instead of living my life.”
Court heard K.P., now 33, was diagnosed with severe borderline personality disorder and had a history of domestic abuse – he has a criminal record from 2019 for uttering threats against his former wife and got a suspended sentence and 12 months probation.
The judge considered sentencing him to 21 years in prison for this heinous case of intimate partner violence (IPV) but reduced that by five years due to the systemic, “excessively harsh” conditions he suffered at Maplehurst – a correctional facility in Milton – including triple-bunking, lockdowns and segregation.
At least K.P. will be put away for a good, long time.
“Sentences for IPV must foster an environment where individuals have the autonomy and freedom to leave intimate partner relationships without fear of harassment, harm, or violence,” Mandhane wrote.
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