A man serving a sentence in the community after rear-ending a motorcyclist in a fatal Burnaby crash and then fleeing the scene is in jail after allegedly breaching his conditional sentence order.
Marcel Genaille was sentenced in June after pleading guilty to failing to stop at the scene of a Canada Way crash that killed 59-year-old Surrey husband and father of two Mark Peters on June 19, 2021.
Peters had been stopped at a red light at Imperial Street just after 9:45 p.m. when he was rear-ended by a Honda Accord driven by Genaille who was travelling at 76 km/h in a 50 km/h zone, according to agreed facts presented in court.
Three eye witnesses said the Accord didn't stop after the crash.
Peters never regained consciousness.
After initially lying to police about where he had been that night, Genaille pleaded guilty two years later, 11 days before his trial was scheduled to start in May 2023.
The judge handed him an 18-month conditional sentence (a jail sentence served in the community) with eight months of house arrest, except for work, and 10 months under curfews.
For the first 12 months of his sentence, he was also banned from being in the driver's seat of any vehicle unless he was properly licensed and was driving directly to or from work.
The circumstances of his alleged breach of that order on Sept. 27 – three months into his sentence – are protected by a publication ban on information presented at a bail hearing that took place Tuesday.
But that hearing resulted in a detention order, according to the registry.
Genaille's next court appearance, for a new conditional sentence hearing, is set for Oct. 17 in Vancouver provincial court.
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