Tracy McLaughlin

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'Sorry for the heartbreak I have caused your family': Drunk driver

BRADFORD – It was a “party in a car” with the country tunes cranked and the beer “roadies” flowing that led to Ellen Silk’s decapitation in a drunk driving crash, a Crown said at a sentencing hearing Friday.

January 12, 2018 Toronto & GTA

Stiff prison sentence for callous drunk driver

BARRIE — A drunk driver, who moved the dying body of his friend to make it look like she was behind the wheel, was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison — Canada’s stiffest penalty for drunk driving causing the death of a single person.

November 17, 2017 Ontario

Shania Slater, 18, of Orillia, was killed when her friend Andrew Fallows crashed while driving drunk on Oct. 4, 2014.

Ontario man who preyed on little girls sentenced

BRADFORD — Neighbourhood parents thought of him as “the nice old fella across the road.”

November 17, 2017 Ontario

Drunk driver callous with dying friend after crash

BARRIE – A drunk driver who moved the broken, bloodied body of a dying woman so he could climb into her passenger seat to avoid being charged has tried the same scam in the past, a court heard Friday.

November 4, 2017 Ontario

Family of victim Shania Slater leaves Barrie court after sentencing hearing for convicted drunk driver Andrew Fallows on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017. (Front row left to right are victim's mother Rose Looyenga and sister Mellissa Slater, flanked by extended family members. )

'This kid is a menace': Widow outraged over sentence imposed on killer driver

BARRIE — A grieving widow is outraged that a man who stole a vehicle and struck and killed her husband continues to drive while disqualified, but never gets jail time.

October 31, 2017 Ontario

Steve Tuck of Barrie was killed when a teen smashed a stolen car into his vehicle in 2009.