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Kerry Nevin is still hoping to find closure, and a sense of justice he calls “elusive” since his son Andy Nevin was struck in a hit-and-run and left to die on the side of Leitrim Road.

Nevin said the initial trauma of outliving his son has not subsided since that day — June 28, 2015 — and has only compounded through months-long delays and setbacks in a trial originally scheduled to commence in December 2016.

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The ordeal has strained his relationships with family and friends, Nevin said.

“They say, ‘Get over it,’ but there’s no getting over it when this is still dragging on,” he said.

Nevin had diligently attended every court date, and endured each gruesome detail of his son’s death while sharing the same space as Deinsberg St-Hilaire, the Ottawa man charged with dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death and failing to remain at the scene.

Nevin has written to the Attorney General’s office complaining about the handling of the case. A formal complaint over the police investigation into his son’s death was lodged in 2016 with the Office of the Independent Police Review Directorate, but the watchdog agency informed Nevin it could only commence a formal investigation once the court case is complete.