A convicted murderer in Alberta has been sentenced to 18 months’ probation in connection with a pair of downtown Vancouver bank vandalism.
Court records indicate that Curtis George McCallum, 48, pleaded guilty on December 12 in Downtown Community Court to two counts of mischief involving property worth more than $5,000.
McCallum was captured on video smashing the windows of the same TD Bank branch on Hastings and Abbott Streets on the edge of Gastown twice in five weeks.
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The court heard the damages on 12 September and 19 October. The incidence of vandalism was estimated at over $300,000.
McCallum’s criminal history dates back to 1992 in Edmonton.
In 2009, he was sentenced to nine years in prison for the murder of his aunt and the stabbing of her common-law husband on Christmas Eve 2006.
McCallum was placed under the Mental Health Act and ordered to undergo psychiatric assessment when he appeared in court on 24 October.
At the time, the Crown said, McCallum committed the costly mischief because “he didn’t have shelter.”
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