LaVerne David quietly shed tears in Halifax provincial court Thursday as she grappled with bitterness, the deepest of heartaches, and her struggle to forgive the treatment her family suffered after a workplace accident 3½ years ago that led to the death of her 47-year-old son.
She was seated in the first row of the public gallery for the sentencing hearing of furniture company The Brick, which was convicted in September of occupational health and safety charges linked to the death of delivery driver Martin David.
David, a father of four, died two days after a fall that fractured his skull on the morning of June