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Toronto man gets life sentence for beating girlfriend to death in west end home | Globalnews.ca

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Andrew Gerber was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 12 years .

He admitted to viciously beating his girlfriend, 42-year-old Jennyfer Lachapelle , in the west end apartment where they lived on March 13, 2019 .

The pair met in February 2019 and started living together almost immediately at a Toronto Community Housing Building on Pelham Park Gardens .

Both had addiction and mental health issues and Gerber is bipolar.

The judge called the killing to Lachapelle as “particularly brutal” noting that Gerber lied to avoid arrest and had a prior record for uttering threats.

The judge urged Gerber to serve as much of this sentence as possible in an institution with an Aboriginal Pathways unit and access to Aboriginal programming.

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