Two young men who have killed a taxi driver while speeding, avoids jailtime after the Ontario Court of Appeal rejected the Crown's attempt to overturn their conditional sentences. Although the two 20 year olds will not do time in jail, they will have to spend the rest of their sentences under house arrest. In addition, they will be banned from driving for 7 years. Originally, in March 2007, Justice John Moore sentenced each to a year of house arrest and curfew and two years of probation. The decision was the fuel to a fiercesome uproar from the public as the decision was extremely looked down upon. This was because the victim was an immigrant of Pakistan and was about to become a citizen when he was killed the night of Jan 24, 2006. Moreover, his family, would be living without a father or husband.
The fact that two teens can evade jail time with the actions of murder is simply wrong and unjust. Their actions have affected the victim's family severely and set an example to the society's teens that actions such as theirs can be let off. Rather than house arrest, these teens should do their respective time in jail instead of becoming "conditioned." Such decisions from the court raises the question, would the teens have been let off if they had killed a pregnant women rather than an innocent man?
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/510928
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