After two trials, Christopher Husbands has now exhausted all of his legal appeals with the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada not to hear his appeal. The individual had been sentenced to perpetuity without the right of parole before 7 years for manslaughter for the shooting which had left two dead at the Eaton Center in Toronto in 2012.
The first trial had shown that Christopher Husbands had opened fire on June 2, 2012 in the Restoration area of the Eaton Center, killing two people in the group of young people he was targeting and several injured in the public.
Ahmed Hassan and Nixon Nirmalendran, with whom Husbands had disentangled in the past, had been killed. Six other innocent people had been injured in the public. A 13 -year -old teenager had been reached by a lost bullet.
Husbands had been found guilty of two non -premeditated murders, five heads of assault and a criminal negligence chief causing bodily injury.
The murderer had been sentenced to two consecutive perpetuity prison sentences, 50 years, without the possibility of parole before 30 years.
Christopher Husbands had been found guilty of two indivisite homicide counts after his second trial, chaired by judge Brian O’Marra, from the Ontario Superior Court. (Archives photo)
Photo : CBC / Alex Tavshunsky
In 2015, he appealed to the guilt verdict and the Ontario Court of Appeal had given him right and ordered a new trial.
At the time, the defense of the individual notably noted an error in the selection of the jury during the first trial before the Ontario Superior Court.
The shooter, who is now 35 years old, was then found guilty of manslaughter in 2019 after his second trial.
The jury in the second trial concluded that Christopher Husbands did not intend to kill the two victims.
Christopher Husbands had been found guilty of two non -premeditated murders at the end of his first trial, chaired by judge Eugene Ewaschuk, from the Ontario Superior Court. (Archives photo)
Photo : Radio-Canada / Alex Tavshunsky
Husbands was then sentenced to life prison sentence without the right of parole before the two years for the two indivisite homicide counts.
The crown had obtained the punishment she had claimed because she argued that Christopher Husbands was dangerous and that he presented a high risk of recurrence.
The defense had rather recommended a sentence of 12 to 15 years of imprisonment, because it argued that his client had acted by self-defense and that he suffered at the time of post-traumatic stress syndrome.
The defense of Husbands had then decided to challenge the sentence in the highest court in the province, deeming it too severe for an involuntary homicide.
The Ontario Court of Appeal had nevertheless maintained this time the sentence held against him in 2024, forcing the defense to ask the Supreme Court to appeal from the latter judgment.
As usual, the highest court in the country did not give the reasons for his refusal.
