Pet killer gets four months for breach of conditions

A high-risk violent offender diagnosed with psychiatric disorders was sentenced to four months in jail on Friday for using the internet in violation of one of many courtordered restrictions against her.

Kayla Bourque, 29, convicted in 2012 of killing a family dog and a cat and causing them unnecessary pain, was arrested last month for the breach of the conditions imposed on her after release from an earlier sentence.

She pleaded guilty to the breach, which happened during November.

She has been in custody since her Jan. 10 arrest. The Crown and her lawyer both recommended four months in jail.

She was credited for 100 days served and is to be released in 20 days.

Bourque sat in Vancouver provincial court on Friday wearing a jail-issued dark green sweatshirt, her dark hair partly braided as Crown prosecutor Bernie Wolfe read out an exchange Bourque had with a police officer about her online activity in the past that he said indicated she was still at risk for future violence.

Bourque has been diagnosed as a psychopath and sexual sadist.

Earlier court documents include evidence of her having told a university classmate that she hoped to kill a homeless person and was studying forensics so she could evade police.

Police found a bag containing a seven-inch knife, a razor blade, zap straps, a mask and a syringe in her room during the previous offence, as well as a video of her killing the cat plus another with her narrating the evisceration and hanging of the family dog.

At sentencing, provincial court Judge Malcolm MacLean described Bourque, then 23, as a “psychopathic and narcissistic … sexual sadist” obsessed with violence and devoid of empathy or remorse.