Overview
- BC Supreme Court in Prince George imposed the mandatory life term on Friday after Wood’s first-degree murder conviction.
- Tammen ordered a lifetime firearms ban, DNA collection and no contact with Thomas’s relatives, and noted Wood may seek a reduction after 15 years under the faint hope mechanism.
- Court findings say Wood cased Thomas’s home days earlier, entered before 7 a.m. on July 18, 2023 wearing a mask and gloves, and fatally stabbed her; the court heard he was inside for about 35 seconds and delivered 16 wounds.
- At the time of the killing, Wood was on bail with electronic monitoring for an aggravated assault charge; the judge rejected his account of a sudden confrontation.
- Roughly 50 supporters held a courthouse vigil, and Thomas’s mother alleged repeated ankle-monitor breaches and called for reforms to bail supervision and electronic monitoring.