WATCH ABOVE: Drunk driver involved in head-on 427 crash, and project manager on scaffold collapse case each convicted in respective trials today. Mark Carcasole reports.
TORONTO – Sebastian Prosa has been found guilty in connection to a 2012 crash that killed a father and his daughter.
Prosa was convicted of twelve charges including impaired driving causing death Friday.
“I lost almost everything in my life,” said Antonette Wijeratne, wife and mother of the two victims, after the verdict.
Wijeratne said the trial has taken a huge toll, and has been “very painful.”
“My daughter was exceptionally smart,” she Wijeratne. “She was beautiful.”
Investigators say Prosa was 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.
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Jayantha Wijeratne, 49, and his 16-year-old daughter Eleesa were killed.
Antonette was also in the van and was seriously injured.
After the verdict, she said her husband was a great man who did everything he could for his family.
“Today I’m alone. I have to take care of everything by myself.”
She said she was “relieved” the trial was over, and to see a guilty verdict.
“This nightmare is finished.”
Prosa, who was 19 at the time of the crash admitted he drank before the crash, but believes he was drugged.
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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.
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