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Andy Nevin’s father muttered “disgrace” as he walked out of the courtroom while Justice Catherine Aitken was still in the midst of reading her verdict.

The judge found Deinsberg St-Hilaire, 42, not guilty of dangerous driving causing Nevin’s death on June 28, 2015, and not guilty of failing to remain at the scene of the collision that killed the cyclist and father of two.

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St-Hilaire had already pleaded guilty to a related charge of obstructing the police investigation into the collision during the days after the crash.

Both sides of the courtroom broke out in tears as the not-guilty verdict was read, with St-Hilaire and his family members and supporters on one side, Kerry Nevin and his son’s grieving family on the other.

“I want to express how sorry I am for their loss,” Aitken said to the Nevin family as many of them stood up and abruptly left the room.

“A sudden, tragic death like this, leaving so much pain in its wake, must be unimaginably difficult to bear.”