When a letter landed in Courtney D’Arthenay’s mailbox last year stating her spouse’s death at the hands of a speeding OPP officer was not “serious” police misconduct, her “tragedy was compounded by an injustice,” the woman’s lawyer told an Ontario court Tuesday — one that must be rectified by increased accountability for the cop.
The Ottawa Valley woman’s lawyer asked a panel of Ontario Superior Court judges to overturn an “unexplained, unjustified and unreasonable decision” by the OPP last year to not hold a disciplinary hearing against Const. Jaimee McBain — despite two oversight bodies concluding she’d fatally struck D’Arthenay’s partner, Tyler Dorzyk, while speeding and driving unsafely down a rainy dark highway.
Courtney D’Arthenay is photographed outside the Oshawa Courthouse.