The Crown is seeking to appeal the sentence of a Regina man who was sent to jail for causing a fatal crash nearly seven years ago.
Earlier this month, Maninder Pal Kang was sentenced to 29 1/2 months in prison, followed by a three-year driving prohibition.
The Crown had asked for a longer jail sentence of seven years and a 10-year driving ban.
In a notice of appeal filed at Court of Queen’s Bench, the Crown argues that the sentence imposed is “demonstrably unfit,” and is not proportionate to the gravity of the offence.
The Crown contends that the trial judge failed to properly consider relevant sentencing factors, and that the sentence is not in line with those handed down in similar cases.
Kang, 25, was found guilty in January of five charges, including impaired driving causing the death of 26-year-old Sukhminder Singh Khuber, who friends and family called Lucky.
He was also convicted of two counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm involving two teenaged girls, who suffered severe head injuries in the collision.
In June 2007, a car driven by Kang slammed into the back of a semi-trailer that was stopped at a red light on Victoria Avenue East.
The car was travelling 105 kilometres an hour at the time of the collision, well over the 70-kilometre-an-hour speed limit.
The court heard that Kang drove away from the scene and parked the car on the side of a nearby residential street, while his injured passengers bled next to him, and one of the girls screamed for help.
Kang called 911 and initially reported that his car had been stolen, and that he found the crashed vehicle with his friends inside.
A witness testified that Kang never attended to the injured passengers and that at one point, Kang told him “look at what happened to my car.”
Still, the trial judge said she believed Kang was deeply affected by the tragedy, and was remorseful for his actions.
