FOG BLOG BREAKING NEWS LOG: TORONTO VAN ATTACKER GETS LIFE , NO PAROLE FOR 25 YEARS!

Toronto van attacker sentenced to life in prison, no possibility of parole for 25 years Dozens impacted by attack gave harrowing victim impact statements at sentencing hearing he man responsible for Toronto's deadly van attack has been sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years.

Justice Anne Molloy handed down her sentence in Superior Court in Toronto Monday in a room full of victims, family, friends and community members whose lives were forever changed on April 23, 2018.

Alek Minassian has also been sentenced to 20 years for 15 counts of attempted murder, which are to be served concurrently.

He was found guilty last year of 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder.

Eight women and two men died on April 23, 2018 when the 25-year-old man who was bent on infamy, angered by women who wouldn't sleep with him and radicalized in the depths of the internet deliberately drove a rented van down a busy sidewalk in the city's north end.

Another woman died more than three years later from injuries suffered that day.

Molloy stressed on Monday that this is a life sentence. "It is not a 25-year-sentence," she said.

What this means is 25 years after the crime, the offender can apply for parole — but that doesn't mean he will get it, she said, adding that the "number and enormity" of his crimes will be taken into account in any parole hearing.