EDMONTON - A man who crashed his SUV onto an Edmonton restaurant patio, killing a young boy, is appealing his sentence.
Richard Suter was given a four-month jail term and a five-year driving suspension after pleading guilty to failing to provide a breath sample in a death.
The judge ruled that witnesses wrongly assumed that Suter was drunk after his vehicle plowed into the patio in May 2013.
Court heard that Geo Mounsef, who was two, was having dinner with his parents and baby brother when the SUV pinned him against a wall and he died.
Following the crash, Suter was beaten up by a mob and was later abducted from his home by three masked men and had a thumb cut off.
Suter's lawyer, Dino Bottos, says his client should not be in jail or face such a long driving suspension.
