Montreal Gazette

43-YEAR SENTENCE FOR MAN WHO ATTACKED MOSQUE

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LONDON A man who drove a van into worshipper­s near a London mosque, killing one man and injuring a dozen others, was sentenced Friday to at least 43 years in prison for what a judge called a crime driven by “malevolent hatred.”

Judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb said Darren Osborne’s mind was “poisoned” by farright ideas before the June 2017 attack targeting Muslims.

“Your mindset became one of malevolent hatred,” the judge told the prisoner. “This was a terrorist attack. You intended to kill.”

She sentenced Osborne, 48, to life with no chance of parole for 43 years, saying “the court has seen no evidence that the danger you present has lessened.”

A 51-year-old man, Makram Ali, was killed and 12 people were injured when Osborne drove a rented van into people leaving evening prayers during Ramadan.

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