Convicted killer of Muslim family in London, Ont., terror case is seeking an appeal, lawyer says [Video]

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The 23-year-old man convicted of murder in the 2021 attack on a Muslim family in London, Ont. — in what the judge called a “textbook” case of terrorism — is seeking to appeal his convictions, his lawyer says.

Word of the appeal move comes less than two months after Nathaniel Veltman was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years in the June 6, 2021, attack. It left four members of the Afzaal family dead and a boy, who was nine years old at the time, injured and orphaned.

Yumnah Afzaal, 15, her parents — Madiha Salman, 44, an engineer, and Salman Afzaal, 46, a physiotherapist — were killed, as was family matriarch Talat Afzaal, 74, a teacher and artist.

Veltman was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder in November following a 10-week jury trial in Windsor. His …