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Nightmare continues for mother of murder victim Killers of Branson Sanders to be sentenced March 28 Wanda Chow
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Hannele Sairanen had a bad feeling talking with her son, Branson Sanders. It was Nov. 27, 2011, only weeks before Christmas. She told him to come for a visit. Whatever was troubling him at the time, she remembers thinking it would all be better if he came to see her on Vancouver Island. “That was the last conversation I had with him.” From what Sairanen has learned from the coroner, he was dead only hours later. Sanders was 20 years and four months old. His severely burned body was found in bushes off Fareham Avenue and Elwell Road in Burnaby by someone walking their dog on Dec. 2, 2011. The location was near the George Derby Conservation Area next to Robert Burnaby Park. Sanders graduated from Cariboo Hill secondary and grew up at Mulberry Place, a housing complex, both nearby. The Integrated Homicide Hannele Sairanen Investigation Team believes he was If two or three days go by killed in a home in the 18000-block and he doesn’t call to check of 55 Avenue in Surrey and his body in, I’ll be calling him. We dumped where it was found. were pretty tight. Media reports have said it’s believed Sanders was killed after a fight at a house party. Two men, Shakib Shakib of Burnaby and Brandon Nandan of Surrey, both now 21, were arrested in March 2012 and originally charged with second-degree murder. That was raised to first-degree murder and carrying out an indignity to a human body. They pled guilty to manslaughter on Dec. 5 at Surrey Provincial Court. Their sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 28. A 17-year-old young offender was arrested in November 2012 and pled guilty on Dec. 4 to attempting to obstruct justice. He was originally charged with first-degree murder and accessory after the fact to murder. That offender, who has not been identified due to his age at the time of the crime, has a sentencing hearing set for March 18. But for Sairanen, there can be no satisfaction in whatever sentence is meted out. “It’s a joke. It’s a really bad, bad joke.”
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Hannele Sairanen says the months after she learned her son had been killed are a blur. ‘I couldn’t even speak after that for a long time,’ she said. ‘I went into this numb, numb place where, I can’t describe it.’
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