Tag: Tristan Roby
The LFP Podcast, ep. 175: The Roby family’s long path to justice
Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP court reporter Jane Sims, who covered the sentencing of Londoner Jesse Bleck – five years after he struck teenage cyclist Tristan Roby, who suffered catastrophic injuries, in a hit-and-run crash.
Prison for hit-and-run driver who left teen cyclist with catastrophic injuries
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News Just days after her son was left with a catastrophic brain injury from a hit-and-run crash, Abby Roby publicly
No more jail for driver in hit-and-run that devastated teen cyclist: Defence
The lawyer for a Londoner convicted in a 2019 hit-and-run that badly hurt a cyclist wants no more jail time for his client, court heard.
Sentencing delayed, again, for driver who struck teenage cyclist
Jesse Bleck’s sentencing must wait for another day – again.
Tristan Roby’s message to driver who hit him: ‘You basically killed me’
Tristan Roby started writing his victim impact statement about his life since the devastating hit-and-run more than four years ago when it was easier to communicate with his mother. But the wheelchair-bound 22-year-old London man with the traumatic brain injury doesn’t speak anymore and communicates with his mother by blinking – one blink for yes, […]
‘He’ll pay for what he did’: Tristan Roby’s mom reacts to guilty verdict at hit-and-run trial
Abby Roby rushed to give her son the news as soon as she returned home from the London courthouse. “Guilty, baby, guilty,” she told Tristan, 22, Wednesday evening about the verdicts returned by the Superior Court jury that convicted Jesse Bleck, 29, of failing to remain at a crash and driving while prohibited. The verdicts, […]
Tristan Roby, his mother and a stunning outside-the-court exchange
Just outside the door of the London courtroom, Abby Roby lovingly tousled her son’s thick dark hair while his support workers suctioned his breathing tube.
Jury: Jesse Bleck guilty in hit-and-run crash that badly hurt teen cyclist
A London man who claimed he wasn’t driving a car that struck and gravely injured a teenaged cyclist has been found guilty of two charges.
Who was driving in hit-and-run? Lawyers make closing arguments
The question for the jury at a lengthy hit-and-run trial is: Who was driving the car that struck and gravely injured cyclist Tristan Roby? The Crown says the jury needs to consider the totality of the evidence – the conflicting witness testimony and police statements and the 38 exhibits – that collectively point to Jesse […]
At hit-and-run trial, confused witness wonders what ‘the truth is anymore’
On his fourth day in the witness box, Ahmad Jamal on Tuesday said he “wasn’t sure what the truth is anymore.” That comment summed up a day during which the jury at Jesse Bleck’s trial heard more competing versions from Jamal about what happened on July 21, 2019 when cyclist Tristan Roby, then 17, was […]