Preston Hill held an eagle feather in his shackled hands and raised it toward his family at the back of the courtroom before he was led away.

He was about to begin a sentence that, at this point, has no end in sight.

On Thursday, Ontario Court Justice George Orsini declared Hill, 27 – who stabbed a pastor to death in a north London driveway and then went on a violent spree near the Western University gates – a dangerous offender, imposing an indeterminate sentence.

“Having considered the evidence in its totality, I find that it does not support a reasonable expectation or likelihood or sufficient reason for believing that anything less than an indeterminate sentence will protect the public against Mr. Hill’s recidivism,” Orsini said in his lengthy decision.

How a young Indigenous man

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