On its ninth day of jury deliberations, the criminal negligence trial of former Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway employees Jean Demaître, Richard Labrie, and Thomas Harding ended with the acquittal of all three. The news came as a relief to the accused, as it marked the end of a four and a half year long chapter in the lives of the operations manager, rail traffic controller, and locomotive engineer who were on the job the night of the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster. See full story in the Monday, Jan. 22nd edition of The Record.
Demaître, Labrie and Harding acquitted in Lac Mégantic trial
By Gordon Lambie
