Ontario man faces life sentence, deportation for setting estranged wife on fire [Video]

In a Toronto courtroom Thursday, Norbert Budai had one last chance to address the court before being sent to a federal penitentiary to start serving a life sentence with no eligibility for parole until he’s served 25 years in prison.

“I would like to apologize,” said Budai through a Hungarian translator.

“I know there is no excuse for it and I cannot start again. I would like to find a way to get back to how it used to be. As time passes, I realize I cannot go back to the beginning. I think that it was an unplanned series of events.”

The 41-year-old Hungarian refugee, who came to Canada with his common-law wife Henrietta Viski and the couple’s three children in 2019, was found guilty last month of first-degree murder after killing Viski, from whom he was estranged.

He faces being deported if he completes his prison sentence and is granted parole.

On June …