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Photo by PROVIDED / KERRY NEVIN

In a May 15 letter to the victim’s father, Kerry Nevin, Deputy Crown Attorney Brian Holowka offered condolences.

“I recognize the devastating impact that this case has had on you and your family, and that the sentence imposed was far more lenient than you had hoped for. I extend my condolences to you and all your family for the tragic loss that you have suffered,” Holowka wrote.

Kerry Nevin says the justice system has failed his dead son.

“This whole dirty justice system has forgotten what their jobs are. My late son was not accorded justice, rather he was victimized again,” the grieving father said.

In 2015, Andy Nevin, 39, was cycling along Leitrim Road when Deinsberg St-Hilaire’s pickup truck smashed into him.

St-Hilaire never stopped his truck after striking Nevin, who was thrown some 60 feet off his bike and into the ditch on June 28, 2015. The judge accepted St-Hilaire’s account that he fell asleep at the wheel only to be awoken by a loud bang. He kept on driving when he checked the rear-view mirror and saw nothing amiss, he told court.

He was doing 80 kilometres per hour in a 50-km/h zone. It was 5:55 a.m. and he was driving home from a wedding after-party. He testified he’d only had one glass of wine the entire night. It was his brother’s wedding and he was the best man. St-Hilaire got behind the wheel of an Ford F-250 pickup after being awake for 22 hours.