Nicholas Russell-Ewanation buried his face in his hands while listening to the court discuss the sudden and violent death of his father.

His body shook with sobs. But in the front row of the courtroom sat his mother and brother – huddled together as a united family – looking over at him in the prisoner’s box with unwavering love and support.

There were others in the courtroom too, rows of family and friends joining in a pledge of forgiveness for the 30-year-old man who, while in a temporary drug-induced psychosis, killed his father, despite having never acted violently or had any previous brushes with the law.

What played out in a London courtroom Wednesday afternoon was an extraordinary act of love and forgiveness in the wake of what assistant Crown attorney Ryan Lafleur described

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