New York truck attacker gets 10 life sentences plus 260 years

An Islamic State protagonist down the deadliest panic onslaught successful New York since 9/11 has been told helium volition dice successful situation serving aggregate beingness sentences.

Sayfullo Saipov killed 8 erstwhile helium drove a motortruck astatine pedestrians and cyclists connected a Manhattan thoroughfare successful 2017.

He was fixed 10 beingness sentences - 8 of which tally consecutively - positive 260 years, and volition ne'er beryllium released.

As helium was sentenced, helium was told helium had "destroyed truthful galore lives" - but showed nary remorse during the trial.

Saipov was confronted by victims' families and survivors successful court, with the justice noting his "sheer unrepentant nature" during sentencing connected Wednesday.

The Uzbekistan national, present 35, utilized a rented motortruck to onslaught cyclists and pedestrians astatine random connected downtown Manhattan's West Side connected the evening of Halloween 2017.

He shouted "God is great" successful Arabic and was changeable by constabulary arsenic helium emerged from the vehicle. He hoped the atrocity would gain him rank of the group, a erstwhile proceeding was told.

He is expected to beryllium held successful Colorado's high-security "supermax" prison, wherever inmates walk up to 23 hours a time successful their cells.

Monica Missio, the parent of unfortunate Nicholas Cleves, told the courtroom: "It disgusts maine that helium gets to aftermath up each time portion my lad does not."

"His barbarism and cruelty fills maine with rage," she said.

Rachel Pharn, who survived the attack, said she could forgive Saipov for the interaction connected herself, but not for the suffering helium had caused to others who had travel to perceive the sentencing.

She added: "When I look astir the room, erstwhile I deliberation of each the symptom you caused, that I cannot forgive. That is betwixt you, them and Allah."

Five of those killed were tourists from Argentina, and a 31-year-old pistillate from Belgium who was visiting the metropolis besides died.

Two Americans, a 32-year-old fiscal idiosyncratic and a 23-year-old bundle engineer, were killed, portion 12 others were injured.

US District Judge Vernon Broderick said Saipov's crimes were notable "both successful presumption of the interaction it had connected the victims and connected the sheer unrepentant quality of the defendant".

Addressing the tribunal earlier sentencing, Saipov appeared to repetition his praise of the panic radical and suggested helium was unmoved by the grounds helium had heard.

He was spared the decease punishment erstwhile a assemblage did not unanimously hold to enforce 1 astatine a proceeding past week.