Joseph George Sutherland sentence to be handed down today [Video]

The man who confessed to the brutal 1983 murders of two women in Toronto has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 21 years.

The sentence was handed to Joseph George Sutherland by Superior Court Justice Maureen Forestell in a downtown Toronto courtroom on Friday.

Back in October, Sutherland pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder in connection with the deaths of Erin Gilmour and Susan Tice.

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“The two murders that Mr. Sutherland committed were profoundly serious,” Forestell said. “They were killed in their homes, which should have been places of sanctuary. The impact of violence has continued to be felt by other victims, in this case, families and friends.”

Gilmour, the daughter of mining magnate David Gilmour, was 22 years old when she was stabbed, strangled and sexually assaulted in her Yorkville apartment on …