Crown wants jail time for B.C. hit-and-run driver who violated house arrest

Crown prosecutors accidental a B.C. man who fled the country of a deadly hit-and-run 3 years agone should walk clip down bars for violating the conditions of his house arrest condemnation for the crash.

Marcel Genaille pleaded blameworthy past twelvemonth to leaving the country of a June 2021 collision that near 59-year-old James ‘Mark’ Peters dead.

Earlier this year, helium was handed an 18-month conditional condemnation which included 8 months of location arrest. The sentence’s conditions included an exemption for him to permission location for enactment and for aesculapian appointments.

Genaille has admitted to breaching 2 presumption of his conditional condemnation bid (CSO).

On Wednesday, the Crown told Vancouver Provincial Court Judge Andrea Brownstone that constabulary recovered Genaille successful the driver’s spot of a conveyance successful Surrey connected Sept. 27. Genaille was a prohibited operator astatine the time, and had not had car security since February.

“He’s unbelievable,” Crown authoritative Mark Myhre told the court.

Myhre said constabulary spotted Genaille astatine a Surrey state presumption astatine 10:45 p.m., much than 4 hours aft his curfew and 1.5 km distant from his home.

He past near the state presumption and drove eastbound connected 108 Avenue and southbound connected 152 Street, distant from his Surrey address, Myhre added.

The tribunal besides heard from Genaille’s probation serviceman Jill Beamish, who recounted respective times helium was precocious for deadlines to cheque successful with her.

“Mr. Genaille appeared bushed of being bound by tribunal conditions,” she testified.

Bemish told the tribunal Genaille reported moving into a caller portion successful Surrey successful precocious August, and that helium had ne'er told her helium was struggling with homelessness.

Genaille testified helium had been evicted from an flat successful August, and struggled to find lodging that would judge his pets.

He said helium yet recovered a spot successful precocious September but had been without a fixed code until then.

“I would bounce around, slumber successful my car,” helium told the court.

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“I whitethorn person been careless,” helium testified, with respect to telling his probation serviceman astir uncovering lodging successful August.

The Crown argued the conditional condemnation bid should beryllium terminated, and that Genaille should walk 15 months successful jail.

Myhre said Genaille misled his probation serviceman by not saying wherever helium was surviving betwixt the extremity of August and September and displayed a “cavalier attitude” to the condemnation that had spared him jailhouse time.

Genialle’s lawyer, Tony Lagemaat, argued that if the conditional condemnation were allowed to stand, Genaille could beryllium monitored electronically.

“I was careless … I bash instrumentality responsibility,” Genaille told the court, adding that helium was “sorry for the choices I made that brought maine here.”

He added that if helium was enactment backmost connected the CSO “I volition not messiness that up” and that “I’ll beryllium wherever I’m expected to beryllium astatine each times.”

Judge Brownstone has reserved her determination successful the case.

At his archetypal sentencing proceeding for the hit-and-run, the tribunal heard that Genaille struck Peters’ motorbike astatine a reddish light, throwing the unfortunate 17 metres.

Genaille fled the scene, leaving his bumper and licence sheet behind, earlier yet abandoning the vehicle.

The tribunal heard that Genaille initially went to Burnaby RCMP aft the collision, but denied involvement. Instead, helium claimed he’d been astatine his betterment location that night.