Ontario man ordered to report to prison almost 4 years after impaired driving death
Three years and nine months to the day after 51-year-old Louise Whiten was killed by an impaired driver who was speeding down an Oakville, Ont., street in the middle of the day, the Ontario Court of Appeal has revoked Kevin Hyde’s bail and told him he has 72 hours to surrender to Maplehurst Institution to begin serving his sentence.
“The outcome is exactly what we wanted. The appeal court threw the case out. It just goes to our family perspective that the appeal was just baseless,” Whiten’s widower Ching Mac said outside Osgoode Hall after sitting through the two-hour hearing Tuesday morning.
Appellate lawyer Delmar Doucette argued that the verdict was unreasonable and a new trial should be ordered. Failing that, Doucette asked that the six-and-a-half year sentence be reduced to three years given Hyde, 61, suffered a stroke in February.
Upon returning from the morning recess, Justice Ian Nordheimer told the court that the judges did not need to hear from the Crown prosecutor because the appeal on both the conviction and the sentence was being dismissed.
Global's Catherine McDonald has the details.
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