Mary Hendriksen’s husband has spent nearly every day of the last year haunted by the image of her death.
“My days have been long, but my nights have been longer,” Theo Hendriksen said Wednesday at the sentencing of Brandon Nairn, who pleaded guilty to killing Mary in a fatal hit-and-run on Nov. 9, 2021.From our newsroom to your inbox at noon, the latest headlines, stories, opinion and photos from the Toronto Sun.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“She has become my hero and my family’s hero for saving the lives of our two grandchildren and making sure no harm came to them in her final seconds of life. What an incredible and selfless woman she was that we were all so lucky to have in our lives.”Article content Donald heard Nairn “panicked” and went home after he had struck the golf cart Mary Hendriksen, 60, was driving with her two grandkids near the end of her driveway on Zorra Township’s 15th line, between Road 74 and McCarty Street. Hendriksen died later in hospital, but her grandkids survived.
He said his client doesn’t recall “the specifics of how or why the accident happened. He indicates to me that he certainly didn’t realize that it was a golf cart.” “Rhetorically, I wonder, why then the panic? I might have thought that a heart transplant recipient may have had a stronger sense of community. However, that was not the case here either,” he said.
In an impact statement written in the form of a poem and read by Assistant Crown attorney Jonny Melo, Amy Dimmers said her mom was someone who found joy in the simplest of things and was always the first to lend a helping hand.
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