A serial killer buried his victims in the pots of his house

A prosecutor on Tuesday urged a judge to sentence serial murderer Bruce McArthur to consecutive life sentences so he would not be eligible for parole for 50 years.

McArthur pled guilty last week to eight counts of premeditated murder. The former gardener badually badaulted, killed and dismembered several men he had met in a gay Toronto neighborhood for seven years.

The most lenient potential sentence that he would incur would be life imprisonment with no possibility of parole for 25 years.

Judge John McMahon stated that even if McArthur received the lightest sentence, it would be a life sentence and that he could apply for parole in 25 years, but that he would not it would not necessarily receive it. McMahon said he hoped to issue a sentence on Friday.

"The certainty that Mr. McArthur will never be released from prison is a good result," said Attorney Craig Harper.

McArthur, now 67, buried leftover pot leftovers in his home, which he used as a store for his business. He also staged pictures of some of his victims after their deaths, posing the corpses with fur coats and cigars in their mouths.

"He created a gruesome graveyard for his victims," ​​Harper said. "It was an act of self-degradation and personal satisfaction, I wanted to relive each of his murders."

The victims fit a pattern: most were of Middle Eastern or South Asian descent and lived on the margins of Canadian society. His disappearances have attracted little attention, with the exception of the Toronto LGBQT community, whose members have denounced for years the existence of a serial killer in active service.

A victim has hidden his homobaduality from his Muslim family. Another was an immigrant with little time in the country with a drug problem. Another was a refugee who had received an eviction order. Another alleged victim was a homeless person who smoked crack cocaine and who was making money while prostituting himself.

McArthur pleaded guilty to killing Andrew Kinsman, Selim Esen, Majeed Kayhan, Dean Lisowick, Soroush Mahmudi, Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi and Kirushna Kanagaratnam between 2010 and 2017.