A ten-year-old Canadian boy told his friends he killed a six-year-old and asked them not to tell on him.

Lee Allan Bonneau, 6, went missing from in front of a bingo hall on the Kahkewistahaw Native American reserve in Saskatchewan in 2013, The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix reported.

An inquest heard that the boy, known only as LT, told his friends a “big guy” had hit the little boy with a stick and pushed him down a bank and hit him with a rock. He later changed his story, telling his friends it was actually him who had killed the boy.

“Don’t tell on me,” he allegedly told his mates.



Little Bonneau was later discovered in woods on the reserve with serious injuries. He was later pronounced dead after repeated attempts to resuscitate him.

When police first interviewed him, LT repeated the accusation that another man had killed the six-year-old, and provided police with a name.

An investigation ruled out the adult suspect and a bite mark on the victim’s body pointed to LT as the killer. He was also seen walking with Bonneau outside the bingo hall that day.

LT reportedly has behavioural issues and hears voices.

It is unlikely LT will go to jail if convicted as under-12s cannot be charged with criminal offences in Canada. Under Australian law, children can be charged with criminal offences at age 10.

Morning news break - 12 April