Convicted killer Nathaniel Veltman addresses his sentencing hear in Ontario Superior Court in London on Jan. 24, 2024.
An Ontario Superior Court judge has ruled that the actions of a man convicted of killing a London family in 2021 because of their Muslim faith amounted to terrorism.Convicted killer Nathaniel Veltman addressed his sentencing hearing in Ontario Superior Court in London on Jan. 24. In November, a jury found him guilty of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of murder in the 2021 truck attack on a Muslim family.
The first-degree murder conviction carries an automatic sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years, but it was up to Pomerance to determine what facts presented at trial the jury used to arrive at their verdict, and whether his actions constituted terrorism. "This event sent ripples of fear and devastation throughout the London community and beyond. He killed them because they were Muslim."The judge overseeing the case of a man convicted of killing a London, Ont., family in 2021 because of their Muslim faith will rule today whether his actions amounted to terrorism in handing down Nathaniel Veltman's final sentence.of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder after a 10-week trial in Windsor.
For many Muslim Canadians, the facts of the case clearly point to terrorism, said Amira Elghawaby, Canada's Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia.
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