Andrew Gerber has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 12 years after he admitted to viciously beating his girlfriend, 42-year-old Jennyfer Lachapelle, in the west end apartment where the couple lived on March 13, 2019.
“I have considered mitigating factors that Mr. Gerber’s addiction, his intoxication, and his untreated mental illness was causal factors in the commission of the offence,” Superior Court Justice Maureen Forestell said in handing down her sentence in a Toronto courtroom on Friday.
According to an agreed statement of facts read into the record on Sept. 18, 2024, when Gerber pleaded guilty, the pair met in February 2019 and started living together almost immediately at a Toronto Community Housing Building on Pelham Park Gardens.
Both had addiction and mental health issues and Gerber, who is bipolar, was not taking his medication. Lachapelle suffered from Crohn’s disease, chronic back pain and muscular dystrophy.
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