Justice Renee Pomerance, left to right, Nathaniel Veltman, and Crown attorney Jennifer Moser are seen in court on Oct. 13, 2023.
In her cross-examination of Nathaniel Veltman, Crown prosecutor Jennifer Moser pointed out his words in the hours after four members of a London, Ont., family died in an attack in 2021, when he said he had been planning to kill Muslims for three months. The 22-year-old has been testifying in his murder-terror trial in an Ontario Court in Windsor.Ontario Superior Court Justice Renee Pomerance, Nathaniel Veltman and Crown attorney Jennifer Moser, left to right, are shown on Oct. 13 in this sketch.
"You said to him, 'I started actually planning it in March.' You told him that," Moser said, to which the accused replied: "March was the time when I finally reached a point where my hanger was so high." Five members of the Afzaal family, originally from Pakistan, were out for a late-evening stroll on a warm spring evening in suburban London when they were struck by a black truck driven by the accused, a detail agreed on by the defence and prosecution. The family developed the nightly walking habit during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Talat Afzaal, 74, Salman's mother, was also killed. The artist and teacher was staying with the family and lived with another son in the Greater Toronto Area.
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