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Mukwoh Jordan Land stood before a judge last week to plead guilty to all charges against him related to the fatal hit-and-run outside City Hall on May 16 that left a 60-year-old cyclist dead.

The man’s death reinforced calls for cyclist safety along what one city councillor called the downtown “murder strip.”

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Land first pleaded guilty on Nov. 19 to dangerous driving causing death and fleeing the scene. There was some brief confusion in the courtroom regarding an agreed statement of facts on the case, forcing a one-week adjournment while the statement was amended and read into the record at a Nov. 28 hearing.

Land, 33, was also arraigned on federal gun and fentanyl possession charges at that same hearing, and he stood in the prisoner’s dock again before Ontario Court Justice Trevor Brown to enter a guilty plea.

A publication ban was reinforced on much of the information heard at Land’s earlier bail hearing. The full reading of the facts to support Land’s guilty plea will be entered as evidence during his sentencing, with a hearing likely to be set in the new year.