Day parole has been granted for a driver that killed 16 people, many of them teenagers.
The transport truck driver, Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, blew a stop sign in rural Saskatchewan and hit a bus carrying members of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team in 2018. 13 people were injured, and 16 died because of the drivers negligence.
Families of the victims made impact statements condemning the driver, and pleading to turn down the day parole request.
Sidhu apologized afterwards, stating that he “…deeply hurt every one of them. I destroyed their dreams, destroyed their future and now I have given them unbearable pain”.
After a seven-hour hearing, the Parole Board of Canada granted the trucker day parole for six months.
The Board also said that if Sidhu follows all conditions, he will get full parole after those six months. His initial sentence was for eight years.
