A 20-year-old man pleading guilty to four counts of first-degree murder is an extremely rare event that highlights the horrific nature of the mass stabbing he perpetrated in Ottawa last year, legal experts have told CBC.

Sri Lankan international student Febrio De Zoysa killed six people including four children in their Barrhaven home last March.

Last week he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder of Inuka Wickramasinghe, 7; Ashwini Wickramasinghe, 4; Ranaya Wickramasinghe, 3; and Gamini Amarakoon, 40, a close family friend and one of the family's two tenants.

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De Zoysa pleaded down two counts to the lesser offence of second-degree murder of mother Darshani Ekanayake, 35, and her two-month-old baby Kelly Wickramasinghe. He pleaded

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