Sentencing hearing begins for impaired driver who killed three near Pemberton
Posted March 27, 2017 4:49 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – A man who pled guilty of driving drunk and killing three people near Pemberton two years ago will soon learn his fate.
A sentencing hearing has begun for Samuel Alec, who pleaded guilty to three counts of impaired driving causing death.
BC Supreme Court has heard in an agreed statement of facts that Alec was driving home from a friend’s funeral in May 2015 when he crossed the centre line and collided head on with two road bikers north of Pemberton.
Cyclists Ross Chafe and Kelly Blunden were killed, as was Paul Pierre Jr., a passenger in the vehicle.
The Crown is asking for 12 years in prison.
The sentencing proceedings are scheduled to last three days.
