The transparently false story told by Max Tutivan that he didn’t know he was dragging a gas station attendant to his death on Roselawn Ave. has earned him the disgust of a judge and a life sentence. There will be no possibility of parole for 16 years. Tutivan pulled into a Shell station at Roselawn and Marlee Ave. on the night of September 12 five years ago and tanked up his SUV. He also filled two gan cans. The bill was $112. As he left without paying he ran down Jayesh Prajapati, 44 and dragged the husband and father 78 metres. In court Tutivan, a lifetime criminal, claimed he didn’t know he had hit anyone even though witnesses say Pajapati’s screams curdled their blood. Tutivan fled to Montreal and was not caught until authorities issued a $25,000 reward for his capture and conviction. “Mr. Tutiven’s actions in callously killing a vulnerable victim, his lengthy criminal record and absence of any real prospect of rehabilitation call for a sentence that denounces the conduct, deters others and protects the public,” Judge Maureen Forestell said in her ruling Wednesday.
