Alleged driver in 2-death restaurant crash fit to stand trial
Last Updated: Friday, October 3, 2008 | 12:19 PM PT
CBC News
A man accused of killing two women by driving his truck into a sushi restaurant in Maple Ridge, B.C., has been declared fit to stand trial by a provincial court in Port Coquitlam, despite questions about his physical and mental health
Brian Craig Irving, 51, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder and six charges of attempted murder after the Aug. 28 crash.
The Crown submitted a psychiatric assessment that the judge accepted Friday. Irving will next appear in court at the end of the month to set a date for the trial.
Previously, Crown prosecutor Susan McCallum had told the court that Irving suffered a head injury in his Maple Ridge home in February and required brain surgery.
Irving also has a long history of alcoholism. He missed some of his earlier court appearances because of alcohol withdrawal while he was held at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Port Coquitlam, McCallum had said.
Irving's pickup truck is alleged to have smashed into the Halu Sushi restaurant at a strip mall in Maple Ridge, killing the two women and injuring six others.
Maija-Liisa Corbett, 19, and Hyeshim Oh, 46, died when the truck struck the restaurant on Lougheed Highway at 203rd Street around 6 p.m..
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