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There was no doubt that the unprovoked attack by two men on 74-year-old Morty White on Dec. 8, 2018, and the severe injuries he suffered met the legal grounds for an aggravated assault.

Any lingering doubt over the identity of the two assailants captured on video that morning was erased Wednesday as a judge found Abdirahman Sahal and Yusuf Hussein guilty of all charges, including aggravated assault, assault and several breaches.

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The distinctive clothing the two men wore during the Saturday morning assault outside a Montreal Road bank machine was matched with images taken from surveillance video in a nearby Burger King the night before.

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And according to the decision by Ontario Court Justice Peter Doody, both men were wearing some of that same distinctive clothing when they were arrested a month later. Sahal was arrested Jan. 6 and police seized and photographed the fur-trim jacket, designer jeans and white shoes he was wearing. When Hussein turned himself in two days later, he was wearing the same bright yellow “Puma” hoodie seen in the incriminating video.