Montreal-area bus driver appealing high-risk offender status – CityNews Montreal

Pierre Ny St-Amand, the Montreal-area man who was found not criminally responsible for the deaths of two children and injuring six others after driving a city bus into a Laval daycare in 2023, is appealing his high-risk offender status.

On Monday, Ny St-Amand was granted an extension to file a notice of appeal by Justice Geneviève Marcotte of the Quebec Court of Appeal.

Ny St-Amand’s lawyers have been given until Sept. 4 to file their documents to appeal.

On March 16, Justice Éric Downs ruled that Pierre Ny St Amand is designated as a high-risk offender which means that he is to remain under more strict conditions at a Montreal psychiatric facility especially concerning absences.

Last year, it was concluded by psychiatrists that Ny St-Amand was likely experiencing psychosis at the time of the fatal bus crash and therefore unable to determine right from wrong at the time of this incident. 

On Feb. 8 2023, Ny St-Amand crashed a city bus he was driving into a Laval daycare killing two children and injuring six others.

Ny St-Amand remains at the Philippe Pinel Institute in Montreal.