While he was sentencing a London man Wednesday to the maximum seven-year youth sentence for second-degree murder, the Sarnia judge brought up a topic about which some in the gallery may have been wondering.

Why wasn’t the man who committed this heinous crime being sentenced as an adult – which would’ve meant life in prison – instead of as a youth?

Sure, he was only 16 when he shot David Oliver, 29, point blank twice in the head in an ambush killing in Kettle and Stony Point First Nation during the summer of 2020. But it was a cold-blooded, execution-style shooting that gave Oliver no chance to defend himself.

There also was no motive. And he hid Oliver’s body and his blood-soaked pickup truck and stayed quiet for more than four years, forcing Oliver’s grief-stricken family to live i

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