A “misogynist” caught on Toronto police wiretaps trying to hire an undercover officer to kill his wife — and her family lawyer — was sentenced to nine years in prison Monday.

Superior Court Justice Robert Goldstein said there were many aggravating factors to consider when deciding how to sentence Mohammed Hakimzadah, a 55-year-old father of five who once owned his own taxi and limo company.

Exceptionally aggravating was that he counselled the murder of his wife’s lawyer, known only by initials, J.D., after entertaining the “preposterous” notion that she had turned his wife against him.

“As counselling offences go, discussing the gunning down of a lawyer in broad daylight in front of a courthouse, Hollywood style, has to be among the most serious,” Goldstein said, reading his reasons during a sentencing hearing held via teleconference.

“This is not just an attack on an individual lawyer, it is an attack on the administration of justice.”

Goldstein said it was also highly aggravating that Hakimzadah wanted the purported hit man to frame his wife by planting a gun and drugs in her car, before eventually killing her.

“Mr. Hakimzadah seems to bear a particular animus towards women. Just as you don’t need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows, you don’t need a psychologist to tell you Mr. Hakimzadah is a misogynist,” the judge said

“All the people he targeted and blamed were women,”

In January, Goldstein found Hakimzadah guilty of five counts of counselling the commission of an offence that was not committed. They included two murders, transfer a firearm, traffic cocaine and commit public mischief.

He has been in custody since his arrest in November 2016. The judge credited him with six years in enhanced pretrial custody, leaving him another three years to serve in a federal prison.

Goldstein said he would have imposed an even higher sentence of 11 to 12 years, were it not for the mitigating factor of Hakimzadah’s health, which has deteriorated behind bars.

Hakimzadah was unrepresented through most of the proceedings, after hiring and firing a number of lawyers. Goldstein concluded the defendant had consistently tried to “obstruct the process,” not withstanding his genuine health issues.

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“I think all of us in the system have bent over backwards to help him out,” the judge said.

Hakimzadah continues to maintain his innocence and says he has been framed by police.