Trial of accused in fatal Quebec daycare bus crash to hear victim impact statements
Families affected by a deadly bus crash at a Montreal-area daycare in 2023 are scheduled to read victim impact statements today in court.
Earlier in the week a Quebec Superior Court judge accepted a joint recommendation from the Crown and defence that Pierre Ny St-Amand is not criminally responsible for killing two children and injuring six others.
During his trial, doctors said the 53-year-old former city bus driver was experiencing psychosis and didn't know right from wrong when he drove a bus into the daycare on Feb. 8, 2023.
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He killed four-year-old Jacob Gauthier and a five-year-old girl named Maëva, whose family name is covered by a publication ban at the request of her parents.
The Crown has said as many as 10 people will deliver statements during what is expected to be an emotional day.
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Prosecutors have said they plan to have Ny St-Amand declared a high-risk offender, a designation that would impose stricter rules on him and require any decision taken by the provincial mental health tribunal to be confirmed by the Superior Court.
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