A Kamloops man, whose grandmother was among the 10 people killed in the Toronto van attack, says his family is looking forward to putting the court process behind them.

Dorothy Sewell was 80 years old when she was killed in the crash.

Her 35-year-old grandson in Kamloops, Elwood Delaney, says he watched the court verdict online this morning with his wife and one of his three kids.

“Definitely the outcome I wanted of course. With courts you just never really know what’s going to happen, so there’s always a little bit of doubt. Until she said ‘guilty’ as a verdict. It was definitely a sigh of relief,” Delaney tells NL News.

“There will never be true closure over this. But we can at least now put the courts behind us. And that, close to three years, is now behind us. And we can just start to grieve as a family, with just not having grandma around anymore.”

Delaney says he’s been in regular contact with a family in Ontario since the attack.

“And it’s definitely helped being on the west coast, I don’t get all the local news and all that day-to-day stuff that’s going on over there. So being in contact with one, and being able to kind of grieve and kind of know you’re not alone – you’re going through something else with somebody – it definitely helped us as a family.”

The man responsible for the van attack in April of 2018 has been handed 10 life sentences for first-degree murder convictions, and was also guilty of 16 counts of attempted murder.