By Ben Hill For Daily Mail Australia and Australian Associated Press
Published: 00:41 GMT, 22 February 2019 | Updated: 00:57 GMT, 22 February 2019
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Convicted murderer James Gargasoulas has been sentenced to life in jail with a non-parole period of 46 years after he ran over and killed six people.
Gargasoulas used a stolen car to mow down pedestrians on the busy Bourke Street mall in Melbourne's CBD on January 20, 2017.
The 29-year-old's victims included three-month-old baby Zachary Bryant, who was thrown 60 metres from his pram, and 10-year-old girl Tahlia Hakin.
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Convicted murderer James Gargasoulas has been sentenced to life in jail with a non-parole period of 46 years after he ran over and killed six people
Gargasoulas drove a maroon Holden Commodore into Bourke Street, Melbourne at lunch-time rush on January 20, 2017
Gargasoulas injured dozens of others, knocking them to the ground and into walls while driving in a drug-induced psychosis.
In giving Gargasoulas six life sentences at Victoria's Supreme Court on Friday, Judge Mark Weinberg said the killings were 'one of the worst examples of mass murder in Australian history'.
'You mad no attempt to avoid people or to slow down. You simply ploughed through them - quite deliberately,' the judge said.
'The horror of what you did has profoundly affected many. I must ensure that the public are adequately protected from you.
'I'm convinced, as were the jury, that you knew full well what you were doing.
'Whatever your state was during the offending - you are now genuinely psychotic. Your condition is not likely to improve in the forseeable future. It is likely to worsen.'
Grieving relatives recently told the court of their pain, with the brother of Japanese victim Yosuke Kanno saying he will 'continue suffering from this until I die'
Zachary Matthew Bryant (pictured with his mother Nawwar) was left brain dead after the pram he and his sister Zara were in was struck by James Gargasoulas' stolen car in 2017
Family of the victims filled the
