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Man given 12 years in lawyer intimidation case

JASON MILL E R

A Toronto man has been sentenced to12 years in prison for carrying out two gun attacks against a Vaughan lawyer hired to pursue legal action against GTA tow truck operators and auto repair shops.

Civil litigation lawyer Lisa Carr was the victim of “targeted crimes of violence, committed in order to intimidate Carr to abandon her work as a lawyer on behalf of clients who were exercising their legal rights to sue others civilly,” Superior Court Justice Michelle Fuerst wrote in her ruling released last week.

“That no one was injured or killed was a matter of pure luck,” she wrote.

Carr and her firm were the targets of repeated acts of violence starting in late 2018; Qalid Abderezak, 27, pleaded guilty to a string of charges related to two 2019 incidents.

In the first, on Aug. 29, 2019, he robbed a lawyer who worked for Carr and physically resembled her while she was sitting in a car outside the Carr Law office.

In the second, on Sept. 6, Abderezak sprayed seven gunshots into the firm’s front door and window while employees were inside.

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