CP NewsAlert: Secure custody for Alberta boy who tied to kill brother

By Canadian Press on February 11, 2026.

LETHBRIDGE — A judge has sentenced a 13-year-old boy to two years of secure custody for trying to stab his younger brother to death.

The attacker was 12 when he repeatedly stabbed the seven-year-old in the family’s Lethbridge home last August.

The judge also sentenced the boy to one year of conditional supervision.

More coming.

Dayne Patterson, The Canadian Press