Overview

• Veltman filed his notice of appeal on the fourth anniversary of the June 6, 2021 attack that killed four members of the Afzaal family in London, Ontario.
• The appeal asserts three grounds for a new trial: admission of his white supremacist manifesto, inclusion of police statements obtained through a Charter breach, and refusal to grant a mistrial over inflammatory closing remarks.
• A Windsor jury found Veltman guilty in November 2023 of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder for intentionally driving his pickup into the family.
• Superior Court Justice Renee Pomerance labeled the attack a “textbook case” of terrorism under Canadian law prior to Veltman’s life sentence with no eligibility for parole for 25 years.
• Veltman’s trial spanned 12 weeks and heard evidence of his right-wing extremist and Islamophobic motivations, including his self-description as a white nationalist.