A white supremacist who drove his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters during a white nationalist rally in Virginia has been sentenced to life in prison on hate crime charges.
James Alex Fields Jr of Maumee, Ohio, was sentenced on Friday after pleading guilty in March to US federal hate crime charges in an attack that killed one person and injured more than two dozen others.
The victim was 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
He will be sentenced next month on separate state charges.
Fields apologised before the judge handed down his sentence.
The Unite The Right rally on August 12 2017, drew hundreds of white nationalists to Charlottesville to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
Trump was criticized from the left and right for initially saying there were "fine people on both sides" of the dispute between neo-Nazis and their opponents at the rally. Subsequent alt-right gatherings failed to draw crowds the size of the Charlottesville rally.
Fields admitted deliberately driving his car into counter-protesters who showed up to demonstrate against the white nationalists.
The case stirred racial tensions around the country.
Heyer's parents described the grief of losing their daughter.
"It was an incident I will never fully recover from," said Heyer's father, Mark Heyer.
Her mother, Susan Bro, described herself as "deeply wounded" and recounted crying uncontrollably at times.
