The family of Matthew Cruz is anxious for justice but doubtful that it can be achieved, even if Akamjot Sandhu is found guilty of dangerous driving and impaired driving causing death.
“We don’t know if we’re even going to get justice. This guy might do two years. Every day I try to tell people, ‘What’s the new life like? You live with the grief demons,’” Matthew’s father Jack Cruz said outside the Brampton, Ont., courthouse on Thursday.
On Sept. 11, 2021, just before 12:30 a.m., Matthew was in an Uber on his way home from work and was involved in a collision. He was pronounced dead in hospital.
“The thing is, he normally gets a bus home but he took an Uber that night,” said Zak Cruz, Matthew’s older brother.
The jury heard that a black Volkswagen Jetta, which was allegedly being driven by Sandhu, was going northbound on Winston Churchill Boulevard when it struck the white …