A Quebec Crown prosecutor says its expert has concluded that a man accused of murdering two children and injuring six others after a city bus crashed into a Montreal-area daycare should be found not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder.
Prosecutor Karine Dalphond told a judge today that the Crown and defence will now present their evidence jointly when Pierre Ny St-Amand’s first-degree murder trial proceeds this spring.
St-Amand was arrested after a transit bus crashed into the front of a daycare in Laval, Que., on Feb. 8, 2023, killing two young children, aged five and four, and injuring six others.
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In February, a Quebec court judge ruled after a preliminary inquiry that there was sufficient evidence to send the case to trial.
The former Laval transit driver was to stand trial on two charges of first-degree murder and seven other charges, including attempted murder and aggravated assault.
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