The court sentenced the offender for dangerous driving causing death and failing to remain at the scene of a fatal collision involving a pedestrian at an Ottawa intersection.
The sentencing judge treated denunciation and general deterrence as primary, emphasized the offender's deliberate conduct, prolonged deception, and poor driving record, and held that the offender's schizophrenia, while mitigating, did not cause the offences and did not displace the need for penitentiary terms.
A conditional sentence was found unavailable and consecutive sentences were required because the offences protected different societal interests.
The offender received a global sentence of four years' imprisonment, less credit for presentence custody, together with a 10-year driving prohibition, a mandatory weapons prohibition, and a DNA order.
