TORONTO – Sabastian Prosa is scheduled to receive his sentence today after he was found guilty in June for a 2012 crash that killed a father and his daughter.
Prosa was convicted of twelve charges including impaired driving causing death after Prosa was caught driving in the wrong direction on Highway 427 near a QEW on-ramp on August 5, 2012.
The SUV he was driving struck a minivan carrying the Wijeratne family, who was returning from a vacation in Florida.
Jayantha Wijeratne, 49, and his 16-year-old daughter Eleesa were killed. The mother was also in the van and was seriously injured.
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Prosa, who was 19 at the time of the crash, admitted he drank before the crash but believed he was drugged.
Prosa’s lawyer pushed for the case to be thrown out because part of a blood sample submitted as evidence in the case was lost and could not be tested for drugs.
Justice Glenn Hainey dismissed the request for a stay on the proceedings despite the fact he found the forensics staff were careless in losing highly relevant evidence.
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