HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia judge imposed a publication ban Friday on testimony for the sentencing hearing of a 16-year-old boy who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a Halifax high school student.

The offender, whose identity is protected from publication, was one of four teens charged in the death of 16-year-old Ahmad Maher Al Marrach on April 22, 2024, at a Halifax mall parking garage. The accused was 14 at the time of the stabbing; he pleaded guilty in January.

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