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ST. THOMAS — Slain Sarnia kindergarten teacher Noelle Paquette fell victim to “best friends” bound by violent sexual appetites and a mutual desire to attack a random woman.

Wednesday, the jarring facts about the abduction, rape and murder of 27-year-old Paquette by Michael MacGregor, 22, and Tanya Bogdanovich, 34, began to be read into the record at the pair’s sentencing hearing.

Both pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in December, when bare-bones facts were disclosed about how Paquette was abducted early New Year’s Day 2013, and taken to a wooded area on Sarnia’s outskirts and stabbed to death.

Wednesday brought a far more detailed and disturbing account that underlined how the killers — who had only known each other for seven months through a fetish social networking site — were connected by a joint desire for violent sex and, ultimately, to rape and stab a woman.

Through the entire hearing, the two — seated in separate glass prisoner’s boxes — looked at the floor or straight ahead.

When MacGregor was led past Bogdanovich, he didn’t look at her.

From an agreed statement of facts, Assistant Crown attorney Michael Carnegie told Superior Court Justice Bruce Thomas that Paquette — a teacher, tutor and community volunteer — was “abducted at random” and was “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”