A Toronto pastor says it’s time to “begin the journey of healing” in the wake of the sentencing of a serial killer who terrorized the city’s gay community. Jeff Rock told attendees at a vigil for eight men murdered by Bruce McArthur that “we will not let hate win.”Flags outside a community center in the Gay Village area of Toronto, where five victims disappeared. Bruce McArthur, who pleaded guilty to eight murders that brought fear to Toronto’s gay community, was sentenced on Feb. 8, 2019, to life with no chance of parole for 25 years. McArthur, a self-employed landscaper, pleaded guilty last month to eight counts of first-degree murder for men he killed between 2010 and 2017. His victims were all men from the city’s gay village: Andrew Kinsman, Selim Esen, Majeed Kayhan, Dean Lisowick, Soroush Mahmudi, Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi and Kirushna Kanagaratnam.

Source: thestar February 11, 2019 00:56 UTC