A man who stabbed his wife in 2009 and was found not guilty by reason of insanity appeared in court last week for the first time in more than a decade.
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Nearly three years after he deliberately ran down pedestrians on Toronto’s busy Yonge Street, killing 10 people and injuring many others, a 28-year-old man has been convicted of carrying out the deadliest mass killing in the city’s history.
After a seven-week trial held virtually last fall as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, a judge on Wednesday found Alek Minassian guilty on 10 charges of first-degree murder and 16 of attempted murder.
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Six weeks of evidence, endless testimony from eminent forensic psychiatrists, hours of recorded interviews and confession after confession after confession.
And now, at last, admitted mass killer Alek Minassian is about to learn his fate.
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Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy will deliver her verdict Wednesday at 10 a.m. over YouTube where the only issue she must determine is this: Should Minassian, 28, be found not criminally responsible of this city’s worst ever mass murder due to his autism spectrum disorder?