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Prosecution rests case against Toronto's van attack killer; trial nears end by The Canadian Press Posted Dec 15, 2020 11:28 am EDT The 28-year-old Minassian, from Richmond Hill, Ont., has pleaded not guilty to 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder. THE CANADIAN PRESS The trial of a man who killed 10 people by deliberately driving a van onto a Toronto sidewalk has finished hearing evidence. Closing arguments from prosecution and defence are expected to start Thursday. Last week, Dr. Percy Wright said Alek Minassian told him more than a year after the 2018 attack t...

Article content TORONTO — The lawyer for Toronto van attacker Alek Minassian challenged the expertise and methods of a key prosecution witness, a psychiatrist who offered a stiff rebuttal to Minassian’s claim he should be found not guilty of mass murder because of his mental state. Dr. Scott Woodside, a forensic psychiatrist who often testifies as an expert witness in cases of an accused seeking a not-criminally responsible verdict, took issue earlier with defence evidence at trial that autism robbed Minassian of the empathy needed to know killing is morally wrong. We apologize, but this ...

TORONTO - The man who killed 10 pedestrians by driving a van on a Toronto sidewalk believed he would fail in life and wanted to make his mark on the world with a large-scale attack, court heard Thursday.

The man who killed 10 pedestrians by driving a van on a Toronto sidewalk believed he would fail in life and wanted to make his mark on the world with a large-scale attack, court heard Thursday.