Pet killer Kayla Bourque, who was arrested after allegedly breaching her conditions of probation, was denied bail Monday.
In March, Bourque, whom a judge has described as being “psychopathic” and a “sexual sadist,” was taken into custody and charged with three counts of breaching her probation.
The 25-year-old woman was alleged to have possessed a device capable of accessing the Internet, accessing the Internet and accessing social networking sites. The offences are alleged to have occurred from March 10 to 16.
On April 2, she was initially denied bail by a provincial court judge for reasons that cannot be reported due to a publication ban.
She applied to have that decision reviewed and in a ruling released Monday, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Miriam Maisonville refused to release her.
Maisonville also imposed a ban on publication of the reasons for her ruling, submissions made by the lawyers and any evidence heard at the bail hearing.
Bourque was not in court for Monday’s ruling. No date has been set for her next court appearance.
A former high-achieving Simon Fraser University student, Bourque pleaded guilty to killing or injuring an animal and causing unnecessary suffering and pain to an animal.
Court heard that she had tortured and killed her family’s pet cat and dog.
She’d been adopted from a Romanian orphanage at eight months old, was expelled from school for violence and had always struggled with relationships.
She earned A’s and B’s at college and university, where she took criminology. She also visited websites that focused on violence and spent time in online chat rooms focusing on serial killers.
She told an SFU friend she had disembowelled and dismembered her cat in Prince George, and a police probe eventually uncovered a video of her eviscerating and hanging her family’s pet dog while she narrated the acts.
She also told the friend she wanted to get a gun and shoot a homeless person and that she wanted to kill someone in residence at SFU, where she lived.
The trial judge said she was obsessed with gore and violence and showed no remorse or guilt.
She received an effective two-month jail term to be followed by three years of probation.
Her long list of conditions included banning her from owning a pet for life, from having relationships or friendships with others without first advising her probation officer and from using a computer or the Internet, except for work and only under supervision.
