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Bruce McArthur, nicknamed the "Murderer Gardener" of Toronto, was sentenced Friday (8) to life without parole for at least 25 years for the murder of eight men between 2010 and 2017
The judge in charge of the case, John McMahon, had to decide whether McArthur, 67, could apply for probation in 25 or 50 years, as the prosecution had requested.
Canadian law states that first degree murder is automatically a life sentence without possibility of parole in 25 years.
On January 29, when McArthur pleaded guilty to eight first-degree murders, the judge had to decide whether to enforce the eight sentences consecutively or simultaneously.
McMahon explained that McArthur will be 91 years old when he will be able to apply for probation. It is therefore unlikely that he can get out of jail.
The murderer, gardener by profession, killed eight homobadual men from Toronto and hid the remains of the victims in the large ship-owners that he stored on the property of one of his clients.
McArthur was arrested in January 2018 after years of rumors in Toronto about the presence of a serial killer who has been attributed the disappearance of several people.
Toronto's gay community harshly criticized the city's police, who for years denied the existence of a serial killer that targeted homobaduals.
Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders even denied that McArthur was a serial killer responsible for the disappearances the same day the gardener was arrested.
The gay community reported that the police had begun to seriously investigate the case that after the death of 49-year-old Andrew Kinsman, the only murderer of race white.
The other seven victims are of Asian and Middle Eastern descent: Selim Esen, 44; Majeed Kayhan, 58 years old; Soroush Mahmudi, 50 years old; Dean Lisowick, 47; Skandaraj Navaratnam, 40 years old; Abdulbasir Faizi, 42, and Kirushnakumar Kanagaratnam, 37.
Police initially ignored McArthur, although the gardener was convicted in 2001 of attacking a boy from the program with a metal bar.
Also, in 2016, McArthur was questioned after a man denounced him for attempting to strangle her, but the police decided not to lay a charge. against the gardener.
Police spokesmen said Friday that they would continue to review the unresolved cases of missing persons in recent decades to see if there was any connection whatsoever with McArthur.
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