At the sentencing today for the man who brutally murdered another man in the West End in 2004, BC Supreme Court heard tragic impact statements from the victim's family.
Doreen Rozen said she will be eternally grateful for having her son Marc for 38 year, but lives with agony beyond compare since his death.
Rozen's dad spoke of surviving the Holocaust, saying until Marc's murder he didn't think anything could be worse.
He says he tries not to think of his killer, who again told the court he didn't kill Marc.
"He was really not important anymore in our lives and I know Marc, my son, would not have wanted us to spend the rest of our lives being angry."
In sentencing Michael Newman to life in prison, the judge described the crime as sadistic.
Newman stabbed Rozen 60 times and shot him four times in his West End aparment.
Newman entered Rozen's apartment on the pretext of looking at a ring Rozen was selling.