Toronto van killer's autism defence enrages advocacy groups

Alek Minassian, who has admitted killing 10 and injuring 16 others, claims he is not criminally responsible because of his mental state

Lawyers for Alek Minassian do not deny that he drove a rental van down a crowded sidewalk on Toronto's busiest street on a spring afternoon two years ago, unleashing a frenzy of terror and pain in Canada's largest city.

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