Driver who hit residential school marchers with truck escapes jail time

November 4, 2024

The man who was criminally charged after he hit several people with his vehicle during a memorial march for residential school survivors in Mission, B.C., won’t have to go to jail. On Monday, Richard Albert Manuel, 79, was handed a nine-month conditional sentence in Abbotsford provincial court after being found guilty of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle. The conditions include a 12-month driving prohibition and curfew…