Tory Lanez refuses to apologise after 10-year sentence for Megan Thee Stallion shooting

Rapper insisted he was innocent despite previously accepting responsibility

Tory Lanez
Tory Lanez was found guilty in December on three charges related to the shooting
(Image credit: Lorne Thomson/Redferns)

Canadian rapper Tory Lanez has claimed he was wrongfully convicted for shooting hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion during a row in July 2020.

“I refuse to apologise for something I did not do,” Lanez wrote on Instagram, after he was jailed for 10 years this week for the attack that “drew widespread attention and scrutiny”, said The Washington Post.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.