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B.C. dad sentenced for killing 7-year-old son in car crash while driving high on meth - BC | Globalnews.ca

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Matthew Darlington , 49 , has been sentenced to six years in jail and banned from driving for 35 years .

Darlington ingested methamphetamine at about 7 p.m. on Sept. 6 while returning to Vancouver Island from Vancouver .

He also smoked cannabis after arriving on Vancouver Island at about 11 a.m. , a court ruling says.

His wife was in the passenger seat and their three children, ages seven, eight and 10, were in the rear seat.

The seven-year-old died of his injuries in hospital at 6:40 am ..

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