SURREY, BC — A 40-year-old Ontario man with a long and violent criminal history, including a home invasion, has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the homicide of Tori Dunn at her Surrey, B.C., home earlier this month.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said in a statement that Adam Mann was found by Surrey police while visiting Ms Dunn’s home on June 16.
At the time of Ms Dunn’s murder, Mr Mann was facing an aggravated assault charge stemming from another alleged attack in Surrey three weeks earlier. He is due in court for this matter on July 2.
Mr. Mann was previously deemed an “unmanageable risk” unsuitable for community supervision in a pre-sentencing report after being convicted of a home invasion in Ontario more than a decade ago .
Tori Dunn’s father posted on Facebook a few days after the murder that his daughter had also been the victim of a home invasion.
Police said Friday they found Ms. Dunn with life-threatening injuries.
They said Mr Mann remained in custody and the investigation into the “tragic event” which “shocked the entire community” was continuing.
Notorious criminal
Court records from British Columbia, Ontario and New Brunswick show Adam Mann has a criminal history dating back decades.
In 2009, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for robbery and various weapons offences in connection with a home invasion, which he unsuccessfully appealed.
The Ontario Court of Appeal’s 2010 decision regarding the sentence noted that Mr. Mann had 22 convictions by the age of 25, including violent offenses involving firearms and robbery.
The ruling says the pre-sentence report on Adam Mann was “very grim” and that he had previously described stabbing a female victim “like a knife going through butter.”
The report said Mr Mann was “not suitable for community supervision as he appears to present an unmanageable risk when in the community”.
In December 2014, Adam Mann was convicted of assault after spitting on two employees at the Atlantic Penitentiary in Renous, New Brunswick, where he was incarcerated.
A 2015 ruling from the New Brunswick Court of Appeal said Mr. Mann became “angry” with the two men after a Segregation Review Board hearing, and he unsuccessfully appealed of the assault conviction, representing himself in court, because he was “familiar with the criminal justice system.”
In 2021, he was convicted of publishing an intimate image without consent, an offense which occurred in Abbotsford.
In March this year, Adam Mann was convicted of possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose and wilfully resisting or obstructing a peace officer. He was later convicted of breaching a probation order on June 5.
Court records show Mann is scheduled to appear in Surrey provincial court on July 2 in connection with an allegation of aggravated assault that occurred in Surrey on May 26 of this year.
David Eby scandalized
Premier David Eby said at an unrelated news conference Monday that the situation involving Adam Mann, whose name has not yet been released, raises many questions because he faces criminal charges and Crown prosecutors have urged a judge not to release him.
“And the judge made the decision to release this person into the community where he is suspected of having committed another horrible crime,” the Prime Minister lamented.
“In this situation, the judge is applying federal criminal law and obviously there were issues that prevented the judge from making the decision to keep this person in jail pending sentencing for the original crime. Now he’s back in jail where he should have been, and the family is right to ask those questions, I’m asking those questions,” Eby continued.
He added that all of this was “beyond unacceptable” and pledged to “get to the bottom of it to understand why this continues to happen in our communities, even when the Crown is seeking the detention of the individual, even when we asked the federal government to change the federal rules on bail.
Darryl Greer, The Canadian Press
