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Ronald Teneycke at an earlier court appearance.

Eight months of court dates and multiple lawyers later, notorious Okanagan dangerous offender Ronald Teneycke has finally pleaded guilty to breaking a no-contact order with one of his victims last year. 

At a court appearance Wednesday at which he represented himself, having fired his most recent lawyer in July, he said he was sick of the proceedings. 

"I want this over with I'm tired of coming before the court," he said via video conference from Kent Institution in Agassiz where he is serving an indefinite sentence for what one judge described as a "35-year record of committing violent criminal offences." 

"If you want a guilty plea, let's move on."

He is charged with sending a letter in December 2018 to Wayne Belleville, a shooting victim of one of Teneycke's crime rampages. A no-contact order had been ordered by the courts.

Teneycke first appeared in court to address the matter in January. He has indicated that he intended to plead guilty at several subsequent court appearances.

But he had trouble retaining lawyers, either firing them or having difficulty finding one, and then an administrative error on May 22 resulted in a guilty plea being struck and another appearance scheduled. 

This time, the guilty plea was officially entered. Teneycke will next appear at a sentencing hearing, the date of which has not yet been set. 

The Crown is seeking a sentence of nine months to be served concurrently with his already indefinite sentence. Teneycke indicated he intends to ask for less, in part as compensation for the administrative error on May 22 that resulted in the issue being dragged out further.