After several days of legal arguments without the jury present, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Julian Gojer returned to the witness box in the trial of a man accused of killing a Muslim family two years ago in London, Ont.Dr. Julian Gojer enters Ontario Superior Court in Windsor to testify at the trial of Nathaniel Veltman, the 22-year-old charged with four counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and associated terror charges in the killing of the Afzaal family in London.
Four members of the family were killed after being struck by the accused's pickup: high school student Yumnah Afzaal, 15, her parents, Madiha Salman, 44, an engineer, and Salman Afzaal, 46, a physiotherapist, along with family matriarch Talat Afzaal, 74, a teacher and artist. A nine-year-old boy was seriously injured but survived.
In the hours following his arrest, Veltman confessed to police, telling a detective he planned the attack because he had gone down a "rabbit hole" of far-right content online. He wore a Crusader T-shirt he made during the attack, as well as a military helmet and bullet-proof vest.
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