Ruling today on whether accused in Quebec daycare bus crash is criminally responsible
- A Superior Court judge will decide if Pierre Ny St-Amand is criminally responsible for driving a bus into a daycare in Quebec in 2023, killing two children and injuring six others.
- Justice Éric Downs will review a joint recommendation for criminal non-responsibility from both the Crown and the defence regarding Ny St-Amand.
- Psychiatrists for both sides agreed that Ny St-Amand likely experienced psychosis during the incident on February 8, 2023.
- The Crown plans to declare Ny St-Amand a 'high-risk accused,' which would impose stricter treatment facility rules.
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CP Accused in fatal Quebec daycare bus crash not criminally responsible
LAVAL — A Quebec Superior Court judge has declared a man not criminally responsible for killing two children and injuring six others when he drove a bus into a Montreal-area daycare in 2023.
A judge of the Superior Court of Quebec will issue his decision on Tuesday on the criminal non-responsibility of the man who broke into a Laval daycare with a bus in 2023, killing two children and injuring six others.
Judge to rule today on whether accused in Quebec daycare bus crash is criminally responsible
Separate psychiatrists evaluated the man and came to the same conclusion: it is likely he was experiencing psychosis when he drove the bus into the daycare in Laval, Que., on Feb. 8, 2023

Ruling today on whether accused in Quebec daycare bus crash is criminally responsible
LAVAL — A Superior Court judge is to render a decision today on whether a Quebec man is not criminally responsible after he drove a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare in 2023, killing two children and injuring six others.
Ruling to come down on whether accused in Quebec daycare bus crash is criminally responsible
A Superior Court judge is to render a decision Tuesday on whether a Quebec man is not criminally responsible after he drove a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare in 2023, killing two children and injuring six others.
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