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Newsstand: October 7, 2015
According to the eBible Fellowship, today is Doomsday! Celebrate by getting day-drunk at the office! In the news: man sentenced in Highway 427 crash gets five years in prison, the forgetful are ticketed and towed in downtown parking blitz, and police announce $50k reward in fatal attack.
A man who drove the wrong way down Highway 427 and killed a father and daughter in a head-on collision has been sentenced to five years in prison. Sebastian Prosa, then 19 at the time of the August 2012 crash that killed Jayantha Wijeratne and his 16-year-old daughter Eleesha, testified in court that someone may have spiked his drink, though friends testified he had been drinking heavily prior to the accident. Wijeratne’s wife Antonette said outside of the courthouse, “I’m not pleased with the sentence at all. He took two precious lives and I’m permanently injured. It’s not enough. He only got five years. We got a life sentence three years ago.”
100 illegally parked vehicles were towed on the first day of an enforcement blitz headed by Police Chief Mark Saunders on Monday. In addition, Toronto police issued 10 provincial offence notices and 672 parking tickets in the downtown core in what is being described as an awareness campaign aimed at those “who may have forgotten the rules.” The blitz focuses on an area bordered by Bloor Street West to Lakeshore Boulevard, and Dufferin to the DVP. John Tory said of the event, “There’s nothing like a tow to get someone to stop doing it again.”
Toronto Police have announced a $50,000 reward, hoping to encourage eyewitnesses to come forward to help identify a suspect wanted in a Regent Park blitz attack that left an 18-year-old man dead. In an announcement made yesterday on the one-year anniversary of Yusif Ali’s death, Det. Sgt. Tam Bui said, “We are still looking for several eyewitnesses who left the area of the shooting and refused to make themselves known to police.” The suspect has been described as a man in his 20s, lean, and over six feet tall. Saunders, who approved the reward, says he believes the cash incentive is enough to encourage an eyewitnesses to come forward.