A Quebec Superior Court judge described a triple murderer Friday as “sadistic” and remorseless as he handed down a sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.
On Monday, a jury convicted Mohamad Al Ballouz, who now identifies as a woman and goes by the first name Levana, of the 2022 murders of Synthia Bussières and their two sons, five-year-old Eliam and two-year-old Zac.
Al Ballouz, who was Bussières’ husband at the time, was also convicted of arson for setting fire to the family condo in the Montreal suburb of Brossard, Que.
In his sentencing decision at the courthouse in Longueuil, Que., Quebec Superior Justice Eric Downs said the court considered the “extreme violence” and brutal manner in which Bussières was repeatedly stabbed — a killing he described as a “femicide” and illustrative of “the sadistic character of the accused.”
Downs said Al Ballouz’s crimes …