Alek Minassian repeatedly told a psychiatrist, Dr. Alexander Westphal, — hired by his lawyer — that he knew his deadly van attack was wrong. He said he knew many people would die, that death was irreversible, that his victim’s families would be devastated. He said he knew society, and God, would likely be appalled. And that he would be sentenced to a life in prison for it.
Yet the psychiatrist’s report, submitted as an expert opinion at the mass murder trial, said Minassian did not understand that what he was doing was wrong.
“How can you testify in this court, at this trial on mass murder and say that, leaving out that he told you he knew it was extremely devastating and irreversible,” Crown prosecutor Joseph Callaghan said to Westphal during his stern cross-examination.
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