Prosa sentenced to five years in fatal wrong-way drunk driving crash

Sabastian Prosa has been sentenced to five years in prison after he was convicted of driving drunk the wrong way down Highway 427 in Mississauga, killing two people in a 2012 crash.

He was also handed an eight-year driving ban.

Jayantha Wijeratne, 49, and his 16-year-old daughter, Eleesha, both died at the scene.

At a sentencing hearing in August, Antonette Wijeratne, who suffered serious injuries in the crash, told the court she essentially died alongside her husband and daughter on that ill-fated night.

“I never imagined a disaster of this nature would ever fall upon us,” she said.

“I’m like a walking corpse. I feel dead because of the senseless decision to drink and drive.”

On Tuesday she said the sentence wasn’t sufficient. “He got only five years jail time. We got life sentencing three years ago. So I’m not pleased at all with the sentence.”

Prosa, who was 19 years old at the time, drove the wrong way down a QEW ramp on Highway 427 on Aug. 5, hitting the Wijeratne’s minivan head-on.

His friends testified that he downed numerous shots of vodka at a home and a Toronto bar before he inexplicably got behind the wheel.

Prosa’s defence futilely tried to argue that his drinks were spiked with a date rape drug.

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