SaltWire Network | Posted: 39 minutes ago | Updated: 39 minutes ago | 5 Min ReadHALIFAX, N.S. — A former Cape Breton man acquitted in the 2019 driving death of a 10-year-old girl has been ordered to again stand trial.
Tweedie, who now resides in Dartmouth, stood trial in Supreme Court Sydney last year after which Justice Mona Lynch acquitted him on charges of impaired driving causing death, dangerous driving causing death and leaving the scene of an accident. Talia Neveah Forrest, 10, of Sydney Mines, was riding her bicycle along the Black Rock Road in Victoria County when she was struck by a vehicle and killed on July 11, 2019. CONTRIBUTED - Contributed
The trial, held last March, heard testimony from 15 Crown witnesses. The defence called no witnesses.He said he didn’t stop because he thought he hit a deer. In being less than two kilometres away from his home, he didn’t want to stop and break down on the side of the road. In this file photo, Susan Arsenault, left, mother of 10-year-old Talia Neveah Forrest, is comforted by her sister, Leahann Arsenualt, outside the Sydney Justice Centre after the sentencing of the man responsible for the death of Forrest. Colin Tweedie was placed on probation for 18 months on a charge of obstruction of justice. Tweedie was the driver of a vehicle that struck and killed Forrest. CAPE BRETON POST PHOTO.