L’autista che ha ucciso un uomo e ferito altri nella furia del giorno di Natale è stato incarcerato a vita

Could someone tell me what possibly relevance the fact some of his victims were non white or gay ?
To me it should not make the blindest bit of difference. If someone gets murdered the perpetrator should get the same sentence regardless of if the victim is white, black, gay, straight, disabled, male, female whatever.