31-year-old woman found guilty in impaired driving causing death of Canadian Forces veteran

A Mînî Thnî (previously Morley) First Nation lady has been discovered responsible of impaired driving inflicting demise within the killing of a motorcyclist alongside Freeway 1A close to Morley Highway in Cochane in August 2022.

The trial for 31-year-old Dierdre Snow was held in entrance of a jury this week in Courtroom of Kings Bench in Calgary.

Snow initially confronted 5 costs associated to impaired driving inflicting demise and bodily hurt and public mischief, however 4 of the fees had been thrown out and the jury was solely requested to deliberate on one cost of impaired driving inflicting demise.

53-year-old Canadian Forces veteran Samantha Wylie of Fort Saskatchewan was killed within the crash.

Whereas Snow had admitted to being impaired, she insisted she wasn’t driving and had maintained her innocence, regardless of an obvious confession to the RCMP, recorded eight months after the crash and entered into evidence during the trial.

The video of the confession was recorded on April 6, 2023 after DNA proof linked Snow to the driving force’s seat.

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That’s when charges against another person — Snow’s cousin, 35-year-old Kendra Bigstony, also from Mînî Thnî First Nation — were withdrawn.

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Members of Wylie’s household, who had been in courtroom when the jury delivered its verdict described it as “a weight off their shoulders.”

Choking again tears, her daughter, Haley Perrault, stated “it’s been a extremely very long time coming, however I’m so grateful for his or her effort and time and the vedict they got here again with.

“I really feel like a sigh of reduction has lastly left my physique after what looks like an eternity and I can lastly breathe,” stated Perrault.  “And we are able to transfer on.”

Snow has been launched on bail till she is sentenced, which defence lawyer Dale Fedorchuk stated might not occur for a number of months.

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