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What does B.C. do with offenders?

Susan Lazaruk, The ProvincePublished: Thursday, January 15, 2009

Recent B.C. convictions for criminal negligence causing death involving vehicles range from two years of house arrest to seven years in prison:

- Jamie Condon of Powell River pleaded guilty to criminal negligence causing death by running her car into a woman in 2004, after Condon suffered a crack-induced seizure behind the wheel despite being ordered not to drive.

Sentence: Two years' house arrest, three years' probation and a five-year driving ban.

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- Stuart Yau Chun Chan pleaded guilty to criminal negligence causing death after he ran a red light in Richmond in 2002, broadsiding an RCMP cruiser driven by Const. Jimmy Ng, 31. Chan fled the scene.

Sentence: Two year' jail plus a three-year driving ban. He was released after serving nine months and reapplied for his driver's licence.

- Jenny Woloshyn pleaded guilty to criminal negligence causing death after slamming into another car head-on and killing the driver. The incident happened while Woloshyn was driving drunk the wrong way up an exit ramp in North Vancouver in 2005.

Sentence: Two years in prison, two years' probation and a 10-year driving ban.

- Bahadur Singh Bhalru was convicted of criminal negligence causing death for killing Irene Thorpe while racing another vehicle that struck her on Southwest Marine Drive in Vancouver in 2000.

Sentence: Two years' house arrest plus 300 hours of community service and deportation to his native India.

- Benjamin Bleinis pleaded guilty to criminal negligence causing death for ramming a man's car, killing him, after running a stop sign in Richmond while fleeing from police and high on drugs in 2005.

Sentence: Seven years in prison.