London (CNN)The man who killed a Muslim worshiper and injured several others last year in a terror attack near a London mosque was sentenced Friday to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 43 years.
Darren Osborne plowed his vehicle into a crowded sidewalk outside Finsbury Park Mosque in north London on June 19, killing Makram Ali, 51, and leaving 12 people injured.
Osborne, 48, was convicted by a court Thursday of murder and attempted murder.
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A woman lays flowers near the scene where a van plowed into a crowd of pedestrians in north London on Monday, June 19. A man was arrested, police said, and is being held on suspicion of terrorism offenses. The attack happened near a mosque, and British Prime Minister Theresa May said it was directed at Muslims.
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Police officers stand at a cordon near the scene. The incident happened on Seven Sisters Road, a busy thoroughfare in Finsbury Park.
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Forensics officers work at the scene.
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Pedestrians watch investigators at work.
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A forensics officer examines the interior of a van.
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Area residents react at the scene.
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A forensics officer stands next to a van near the Finsbury Park Mosque.
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Investigators work at the scene.
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Police guard a street in the Finsbury Park area.
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Police officers gather near a van on Whadcoat Road.
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Locals pray near the mosque.
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A police officer at the scene of the incident.
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Police help a woman at the scene.
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London's Metropolitan Police said officers were called just after midnight.
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Injured pedestrians are treated by emergency workers.
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"People were shouting, 'This is an act of terrorism!'" witness Hillary Briffa said.
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Resident Cynthia Vanzella said she was in bed when she heard people shouting. She went to the window and saw "loads of people gathering" in a corner across the road.
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Peter Bergen, CNN's national security analyst, said the neighborhood has a large Muslim population and that the nearby mosque used to be a place where Islamist militants gathered.
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Justice Bobbie Cheema-Grubb said Osborne had been "rapidly radicalized," adding that his mindset "became one of malevolent hatred," she said during the sentencing, according to the Judicial Press Office.
"This was a terrorist attack," she said. "You intended to kill."
Speaking outside the court, the murdered man's eldest daughter Ruzina Akhtar said the family welcomed the verdict while describing the torment they had been through since her father's death.
"Our father, like the victims of most terrorism, was entirely innocent, which makes his death in this violent way all the more hurtful and we cannot imagine the trauma he felt in the last few minutes," she said in a statement.
"But we will choose to remember our father with happier thoughts. He will never be forgotten, he will always stay in our hearts, his laughter will echo the walls of our home, his smile will be reflected in our eyes, his memories will be alive in our conversations."
'Motivated by anger'
Osborne appeared to have been motivated by anger over Islamist terror attacks in London and Manchester, England, in 2017 and a child grooming scandal in Rochdale that involved men of Asian origin, Woolwich Crown Court in southeast London was told.
Flowers and tributes lie at a police cordon near the scene of the Finsbury Park attack.
He rented a van in Wales and drove it to London on June 18 planning to attack people attending a march, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said in a statement after the verdict.
When that did not prove possible, he drove around the city looking for a mosque, it said.
Just after midnight, he saw a group of men helping Ali, who had collapsed at an intersection. More people were around than usual because it was Ramadan, and many Muslims were on their way to or from prayers, the CPS said.
According to the prosecution, Osborne deliberately drove his vehicle into the group near Finsbury Park Mosque, fatally injuring Ali and trying to kill as many others as he could. Nine others were taken to the hospital with injuries suffered in the attack.
Darren Osbourne was convicted of murder and attempted murder.
A witness told the court that when Osborne was stopped from fleeing by members of the public, he said: "I've done my job, you can kill me now."
In his defense, Osborne claimed that a man named "Dave" had been driving the van and was responsible for the attack. But he was unable to explain why closed-circuit TV showed only one man leaving the vehicle, the prosecution said.
The CPS said it had prosecuted the case as a terrorist offense because Osborne's actions were intended to advance a political purpose, expressed in a handwritten note found in the van he used and in comments he made to police officers at the scene.
