A dangerous offender hearing is due to start Monday for a man who viciously attacked a woman in Prince Albert, Sask.
Leslie Black lit Marlene Bird on fire during the attack back in 2014. She was so badly burned that both her lower legs had to be amputated.
Bird was also left with damaged eyesight due to a cut to her face.
Black pleaded guilty to attempted murder in April 2015.
He later tried to have that plea expunged on the grounds that he didn’t understand that his guilty plea would leave him open to being declared a dangerous offender — a designation that carries an indefinite prison term.
A judge decided in June 2016 that Black’s original guilty plea would stand, paving the way for the dangerous offender hearing set to begin Monday morning in Prince Albert.
Black’s hearing is scheduled to run for two weeks.

Dangerous offender hearing set to begin for Marlene Bird attacker
By CJME News
Mar 13, 2017 | 9:04 AM
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