From MandelSun: Vicious killer of his elderly Toronto neighbour sentenced to life in prison with no parole for 17 years
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Standing just 4-foot-11 and needing a walker to get around, Teresa Santos, 75, was brutally stabbed and beaten in August 2020 in her Shaw St. apartment by Damien Allred, a burly construction worker and father of five.From our newsroom to your inbox at noon, the latest headlines, stories, opinion and photos from the Toronto Sun.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
An autopsy revealed a knife lodged inside her mouth that had penetrated deep into her skull. She’d been beaten on her head, had five dislodged teeth and multiple rib fractures from being stomped on her chest. Blood-stained footprints led police down the hallway to Allred’s unit on the same floor; video footage from earlier in the day showed him wearing Puma sandals. His DNA was found under her fingernails. Allred, now 43, was convicted by a jury last November of second-degree murder.Suhail Akhtar called the slaying brutal and ferocious. “The knife was buried so deeply that it could not be seen when Santos was first found and it was only detected through a CT scan,” he said.
“By any stretch of the imagination, this was an horrific attack. An elderly, vulnerable woman was beaten, broken, stabbed and killed in the confines of her own home — the one place in which she was entitled above all others to feel safe.”
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