Yishai Schlissel is escorted by police after his hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrates Court on August 11, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Yishai Schlissel, , the haredi Orthodox man who stabbed six marchers at the Jerusalem gay pride parade, leaving a 16-year-old girl dead, was sentenced to life in prison.

The Jerusalem District court on Sunday morning also ordered Schlissel to pay compensation to the family of Shira Banki, the dead girl, and to each of the six injured in the July 2015 attack.

Schlissel, 40, was convicted of the crimes in August in Jerusalem District Court.

Schlissel had been released from prison several weeks before the parade after serving 10 years for a similar attack at the Jerusalem gay pride parade in 2005. In the days leading up to the 2015 parade, he expressed his opposition to the parade in interviews and in ads in haredi Orthodox synagogues in Jerusalem and Kiryat Sefer.

Police initially turned Schlissel away at an entrance point to the parade, but he found a way in later in the route.

Judges Nava Ben-Or, Arnon Darel and Refael Yacobi said Sunday in their sentencing that: “A person who sees himself as a killer or giver of life cannot walk around the streets of Jerusalem or anywhere else. In the few days of vacation between imprisonment and detention, he ended the life of a girl with a passion for life. He didn’t see her as a human being, and didn’t care at all who will meet [his] knife.”

Banki had been marching in the parade in support of her gay and lesbian friends.

Shira Banki, 16, one of six stabbing victims at the Jerusalem gay pride parade, died from her wounds at a Jerusalem hospital. (Facebook)

Schlissel had eschewed legal counsel, saying the court does not recognize Jewish law, and he did not cooperate with the investigation. He was found fit to stand trial after two psychological assessments and was represented by a public defender.

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