Brian Irving To Miss Court Date For A 3rd Time

Friday September 5, 2008 

Last week I posted about how a man had driven a pickup through the Halu Sushi restaurant in Maple Ridge.  Brian Irving, a resident of Maple Ridge, was arrested after the incident, rather than being taken to hospital, which would tend to indicate that he wasn’t injured in the crash that unfortunately took the lives of two people, and left several more injured.

His first court appearance was last Tuesday, but he was a no-show.  The report was that he had become sick while in custody, and was actually in the hospital, but a second date was set for yesterday.  Local TV showed his lawyer arriving at the courthouse to meet his client (he couldn’t have gone to the hospital?) but, again, he didn’t show up.  Still in hospital, the reports said.

So a third date was set for today, but his lawyer has already confirmed that his client won’t be making an appearance today either, although he’ll be meeting with his client, and enter a plea on the Friday. 

To be honest, I don’t know if the families of the victims were in the court earlier in the week to get a look at the man that changed their lives forever, but don’t they have the right to do so?  Shouldn’t the accused be present as well?  The mysterious illness that Mr. Irving is suffering from has certainly been kept quiet by the media, who don’t give the impression that they’ve tried to find out a whole lot about the man, other than what the police have made available.

Perhaps there’s a reason for all of this, but it certainly can’t make things easier for the families of Maija-Liisa Corbett and Hyeshim Oh to keep having things delayed like this. 

It’s time to start the process, so that they can attempt to pick up and move on from this terrible tragedy.

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