Residents in Lac-Mégantic, Que., say they support the decision of the jury to acquit three former Montreal, Maine and Atlantic (MMA) railway employees charged with criminal negligence causing 47 deaths in the 2013 rail disaster. The father of victim Kathy Clusiault, Jean Clusiault, was at the courthouse in Sherbrooke, when the verdicts were announced and approved of the acquittals. Jean Clusiault, who lost his daughter Kathy in the Lac-Mégantic disaster, is happy that three men were found not guilty, and says that company executives should be on trial. Rail traffic controller Richard Labrie hugs Jean Clusiault, left, father of victim Kathy Clusiault, after being found not guilty on the ninth day of deliberations. Steve Lemay, a former priest in Lac-Mégantic said that sentencing the three men would only serve the "illusion that the case was closed."

Source: CBC News January 19, 2018 22:52 UTC