Quebec police officer gets 8-month sentence for crash that killed boy
MONTREAL — A former Quebec provincial police officer who drove into a car at high speed and killed a 5-year-old boy has been sentenced to eight months in jail.
Patrick Ouellet received his sentence Tuesday in the suburb of Longueuil south of Montreal, where his dangerous driving caused the death of Nicolas Thorne-Belance in February 2014.
Ouellet, 34, was also forbidden from driving for a total of 20 months — an additional year after his sentence is complete.
The father of two is appealing the guilty verdict, and within hours of his sentencing he was released pending that appeal.