Canadian jury finds 22-year-old guilty of deliberately running Muslim family over with truck

A murder trial against a 22-year-old Canadian has reached a guilty verdict of four counts of first-degree murder in a 2021 deliberate truck attack on a Muslim family in Ontario.

As reported by CBC News, the jury announced their decision after less than six hours of deliberations following a 10-week trial. 

The attack drew condemnation across Canada and around the world, after police labelled it a hate crime related to anti-Muslim sentiments though Nathaniel Veltman pleaded not guilty. First-degree murder carries an automatic sentence of life with no possibility of parole for 25 years.

His defence had argued Veltman didn't intend to kill the family, so made a case for him to be convicted of manslaughter of the family, which killed a 15-year-old girl, both her parents and grandmother, while the nine-hear-old brother survived the attack.