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An unprecedented number of people will tell a court and the convicted killer how the 2021 attack on the Afzaal family in London, Ont., has impacted them and their community, as the sentencing hearing for the 23-year-old man gets underway today.
Nathaniel Veltman’s trial enters its final phase this week, with 70 victim impact statements expected to be read out over two days in the Superior Court of Justice in London. After 10 weeks of proceedings in Windsor, a jury found him guilty on Nov. 17 of four counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.
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