Yishai Schlissel (C), convicted of killing a woman during the 2015 Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade, is escorted by security personnel before he is sentenced at the Jerusalem District Court June 26, 2016. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man was sentenced to life imprisonment on Sunday for murdering a teenage girl at a Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem last year, an attack he carried out just weeks after serving a jail term for a similar attack a decade earlier.
Yishai Schlissel said during his trial in a Jerusalem court that he had been doing God's will by killing a 16-year-old girl and wounding five other participants at the July 2015 event.
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