An Okanagan man has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in the killing a tourist from Belgium last summer.

Twenty-eight-year-old Sean McKenzie from Oliver will be sentenced in November, after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Amelie Sakkalis.

On August 22, 2018, the body of Sakkalis was found near Boston Bar off the Trans-Canada Highway. McKenzie was then charged with first-degree murder in September of last year.

It’s believed Sakkalis, who was 28 at the time, was hitchhiking from the South Okanagan to the Lower Mainland before she was killed.

(Photo: RCMP Handout)