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Two of the victims were uninvolved bystanders.

Sek had originally been charged with manslaughter, but pleaded guilty to the lesser count and received another year to his sentence for unrelated gun and drug offences.

Upon his release from a prison in Atlantic Canada, he was immediately jailed because a deportation order had been issued against him while he was serving his sentence.

At a deportation hearing carried out by phone, which Postmedia listened in on, Sek said he had not retained a lawyer and had no evidence to present.

A Canada Border Services Agency officer told a member of the immigration board that the federal government had issued a “danger opinion” for Sek, which meant the public would be at risk if he stayed in Canada.

“The minister is recommending that the preventative detention of Mr. Sek continue until his removal,” the CBSA agent said. “The minister submits the reason for the danger opinion was clear and very concerning — his involvement in the drug trafficking as well as possession of weapons.”

Sek decided not to fight the order and agreed to return to his native Cambodia, a country he hadn’t visited since arriving in Canada with his family as a child in 1986.

He was being held while the Canadian government tried to arrange for travel documents for Cambodia.

In an earlier parole hearing it emerged Sek had ended up in foster care as a teenager.

“You dropped out of school in Grade 9, indicating you were being discriminated against due to your ethnicity, and you ran away from the foster care home,” the ruling stated. “You found acceptance living on the street with a negative peer group, engaging in illicit activities to sustain your lifestyle.

“You claim to have engaged in drug trafficking to support your own family as you had little employment history.”

Sek will appear in Dartmouth provincial court to face the latest charges at a later date.

With a file from Kim Bolan

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