Australian who killed six pedestrians jailed for life

An Australian man named James Gargasoulas (29) who drove a car into the pedestrians, causing their death is jailed for life. The accident happened on a busy shopping street in central Melbourne in 2017.

The Victorian state Supreme Court, on Friday said that the accused is jailed for life with a minimum non-parole period of 46 years. The victims of the accident killed 6, including a baby and a 10-year-old girl.

“This was one of the worst examples of mass murder in Australian history,” said Justice Mark Weinberg to Gargasoulas at the sentencing hearing in Melbourne. “”The horror of what you did has profoundly affected the lives of many of those who were present that day in Bourke Street, and who either witnessed your actions, or their aftermath.”

This incident was reported as Australia’s worst mass killings since the 1996 Port Arthur massacre on the southern island state of Tasmania, that killed 35 people.

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