Senior gets eight-year prison term for attack on woman

Calgarian Nurdin Allaudin Dossa was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison for an unprovoked and unexplained attack on a city woman in her home.

Provincial court Judge Bruce Fraser said there were no mitigating circumstances to lessen Dossa’s punishment, apart from his guilty plea.

“His criminal actions here have been life-altering and it is a miracle that she survived,” Fraser said.

The judge noted Dossa has shown no remorse for his actions and has not provided any reason for the attack.

“He has shown an alarming lack of responsibility for what he did,” Fraser said.

In victim impact statements introduced last week during Dossa’s sentencing hearing, Fraser heard how life is only bearable for Anila Malik when she sleeps.

“When I sleep at night, I dream that I am a normal person, seeking nothing more than happiness and simplicity in life,” Malik wrote in her statement, read in court by Crown prosecutor Marta Juzwiak.

“Then I get up from my dream and what stares back at me (is) the pain of my hands and the scars on my neck and face,” she said.

The statement was read in as part of the sentencing hearing for Dossa, a friend of the victim’s ex-husband, who inexplicably attacked Malik in her northeast Calgary home on Nov. 17, 2016.

Dossa, 69, pleaded guilty last November to aggravated assault in connection with the unprovoked attack, which left Malik with scars to her face and neck after he pinned her to the floor and repeatedly stabbed her.

The assault also left her with extremely limited use of both her hands.

Before the attack, Malik said she had carved out a comfortable life in her adopted country.

“Today, I am forced to turn to the government for financial assistance, something I have never done before,” Malik wrote.

Her daughter, credited with helping save her mother’s life, also provided a statement.

The 12-year-old, who can’t be identified under a court order, said the attack has made her withdraw from society.

“After this tragic incident … I was isolated in my own bubble,” she wrote.

She said the aftermath of the attack, while her mother recovered in the hospital, was heartbreaking: “I couldn’t even hug my very own mother. It would make her feel pain.”

Juzwiak suggested a sentence of seven to 10 years would be justified for the attack, while defence counsel David Chow argued for a four- to seven-year term.

With credit for remand time, Dossa will have another five years and 101/2 months to serve.