Sentencing for teen found guilty in officer’s death

A 19-year-old man found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of a York region police officer is expected to be sentenced today.

The teen can’t be identified because he was just 15 when Constable Garrett Styles was killed.

Styles was standing beside a minivan he’d stopped in East Gwillimbury in June 2011, when the vehicle suddenly accelerated and dragged him about 300 metres before rolling on top of him.

The crash left the minivan’s teenage driver a quadriplegic — and his lawyer has argued that should be sentence enough.

The Crown has asked for an “open custody” youth sentence to be served in a wheelchair-accessible facility.