Man receives conditional sentence in seawall tourist stranger attack
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On Nov. 10, Peterhans Nungu, 35, pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm in the April 15, 2025 attack on a woman visiting from Toronto.
A man who admitted to assaulting a tourist on Vancouver’s seawall last year has received a 16-month conditional sentence to be served in the community, followed by 12 months of probation.
On Nov. 10, Peterhans Nungu, 35, pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm in the April 15, 2025 attack on a woman visiting from Toronto.
Earlier this year, counsel for Nungu argued his client should be found not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder.
According to an Agreed Statement of Facts read in provincial court in June, the complainant, who posted about the incident in a series of TikTok videos, was walking back from Stanley Park to her hotel along the Coal Harbour seawall shortly after midnight, when a stranger approached and tried speaking to her.
The unknown man was the accused, Peterhans Nungu, said prosecutor Tyler MacLean.
Court heard the complainant was not comfortable speaking with Nungu, and did not respond.
“Nungu took offence and started to follow (her),” MacLean told the court. “Nungu began berating (her) and calling her names like bitch and slut.”
The complainant kept walking away from Nungu, who approached her from behind and threw her down to the ground.
She got up and walked away from Nungu as fast as she could, court heard, but he kept following her and yelling at her.
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