"Ryan’s been anticipating the sentencing for rather immoderate clip truthful determination was somewhat a alleviation to not person to beryllium backmost successful court, to cognize what he’s up against for the adjacent mates years and conscionable to person the condemnation implicit astatine this point," Armstrong says. "We finished our submissions successful June of this twelvemonth and we didn’t get the [sentencing] determination until September, truthful during that clip Ryan was rather anxious to find retired what the condemnation would be."

During the sentencing proceeding successful June, prosecutors said Grantham changeable his parent successful the backmost of her caput astatine their location successful March 2020, per newsman Karin Larsen of CBC News, who virtually attended the hearing. Grantham past filmed a video of himself wherever helium confessed to the murder.

Per Larsen, prosecutors said Grantham got successful his car the adjacent time with a crippled to kill Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. However, Grantham turned the conveyance astir with a program to perpetrate wide unit astatine Vancouver's Lions Gate Bridge oregon Simon Fraser University. He did not spell done with it. Later that evening, helium went to the Vancouver police, wherever helium told an officer, "I killed my mother."

During his Sept. 20 sentencing, Grantham was besides issued a beingness firearm ban. Both the beingness condemnation and the firearm prohibition are mandatory for second-degree execution successful British Columbia, arsenic noted successful a connection obtained by E! News connected Sept. 22 from BC Prosecution Services.

While Grantham's transgression carries an automatic condemnation of beingness successful situation nether the law, per BC Prosecution Services, the Sept. 20 determination determined however agelong helium volition person to service earlier helium is eligible to use for parole. As for however Grantham feels astir the result, Armstrong weighed successful connected his feelings.

"This full clip he’s been accepting of immoderate condemnation the tribunal recovered fit, which ties into however remorseful helium feels," Armstrong tells E! News. "He was consenting to judge the maximum of 25 years earlier applying for parole, but of people he’s grateful that he’ll beryllium capable to use for parole aft 14 years."

On the taxable of what Grantham hopes to execute beyond his sentence, Armstrong shares, "Ultimately, helium conscionable wants to determination connected from this."

"He conscionable wants to beryllium capable to positively lend to the world, adjacent if that's conscionable improving his ain intelligence health," Armstrong says. "He's doing a batch of writing, he's speechmaking a batch and helium conscionable wants to determination past this acheronian clip successful his beingness and into thing much positive."