THE CASE OF MELBOURNE KILLER JAMES GARGASOULAS:
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WHO
James "Dimitrious" Gargasoulas, 29, who suffers from treatment-resistant paranoid schizophrenia
CHARGES
Six counts of murder
27 of reckless conduct endangering life
Gargasoulas killed three-month-old Zachary Matthew-Bryant, Tahlia Hakin, 10, Yosuke Kanno, 25, Jessica Mudie, 23, and 33-year-old Matthew Si and injured dozens of other pedestrians when he drove a stolen car through central Melbourne on January 20, 2017 when in a drug-induced psychosis. Bhavita Patel, 33, died later in hospital.
ARREST
Gargasoulas was shot and tasered as officers arrested him after the car came to a stop due to a mechanical fault and being rammed by a police vehicle.
TRIAL
Director of Public Prosecutions Kerri Judd QC told Supreme Court jurors it was "the clearest case of criminal liability that you will ever come across".
Gargasoulas took the witness stand to "apologise from my heart", explaining that he had a premonition half-an-hour before the attack, giving him permission to run people down in order to evade police, but that he didn't have permission to kill anyone.
VERDICT
The jury on November 13, 2018 took less than an hour to find Gargasoulas guilty of all charges.
SENTENCE
Handing him a life sentence on Friday with a non-parole period of 46 years, Justice Mark Weinberg told Gargasoulas: "Your actions were both callous and cowardly. You have shown no genuine remorse."
WHAT OTHERS SAID
"The sentence is not harsh enough" - families of five victims in a joint statement.
"He should never, ever get out of (jail)" - Crime Stoppers Victoria ambassador George Halvagis.
Australian Associated Press