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Schneider plea expected

A former Vernon resident charged in the death a woman in the Lower Mainland is expected to plead guilty to sexual assault charges in a separate case later this month.

William Victor Schneider is charged with second-degree murder and indignity to a human body in the death of Natsumi Kogawa last year.

Schneider was arrested in Vernon's Polson Park.

Kogawa was reported missing on Sept. 12. Few details have been released about how she died.

Schneider is the only suspect in the case and has been identified as the man seen on surveillance footage walking with Kogawa in Vancouver on the day she disappeared.

Police say he's a drifter with no fixed address.

Schneider is a former student of Clarence Fulton Secondary School in Vernon who classmates say was often in trouble with the law.

According to court records, Schneider is expected to plead guilty to sexual assault in Vernon on April 27.



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