Gay Village serial killer gets life for ‘sick’ murders

A CANADIAN judge handed down a sentence for serial killer Bruce McArthur yesterday, condemning him to life in prison with no chance for parole for 25 years.

McArthur pleaded guilty last week to eight counts of first-degree murder. The 67-year-old former landscaper sexually assaulted, killed and dismembered men he met in Toronto’s Gay Village district over seven years.

Justice John McMahon called McArthur a sexual predator who killed for his own “warped, sick gratification” and said the victims suffered slow and painful deaths.

Investigators discovered dismembered remains in planters he used as storage for his business. He also staged photos of some of his victims after they died, posing corpses in fur coats and putting cigars in their mouths.