The union representing a Calgary care worker who was killed on the job by a client nearly six years ago is asking the province to accept and implement changes suggested by an investigation into her death.

Deborah Onwu, 47, was murdered on Oct. 25, 2019, while working an overnight shift at a Woods Homes Society (WHS) assisted living home in southwest Calgary.

Her client, 18-year-old Brandon Newman, stabbed Onwu 19 times.

The teen was sent for a psychiatric evaluation before ultimately being found fit to stand trial. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in September 2021.

He was sentenced to 14 years in prison by a judge.

Newman had a history of violent behaviour and was convicted of aggravated assault in the violent February 2017 attack on a staff member at a Youth Residential Fac

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