Carol Todd is worried the Dutch man convicted of harassing and extorting her teenage daughter, Amanda, who later died by suicide, may not serve any of the 13-year sentence handed to him by a British Columbia court last month.
Todd said she knew at the start of the B.C. Supreme Court trial for Aydin Coban last June that any sentence would be converted once he returned to the Netherlands.
“I didn’t know exactly what that meant. I thought that if he were sentenced to 10 years, maybe he would serve five,” she said in an interview on Thursday.
It wasn’t until a Dutch reporter contacted her after Coban was convicted in August that Todd said she learned it’s possible he may not serve the Canadian sentence because a court in his home country had already handed him a maximum term for similar crimes committed around the time he was harassing her daughter….