Ken Deane

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Kenneth "Tex" Deane (October 1961 - February 25, 2006) was a former Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer. He was convicted of criminal negligence causing death in 1995 after shooting protester Dudley George during the Ipperwash Crisis. Deane was killed on February 25, 2006 in a car accident when his vehicle was hit by a truck near Prescott, Ontario^[1]. He was the third person involved in the Ipperwash Crisis to be killed in a car accident^[2]. No investigation into whether the three car accidents are connected has been made.

Sergeant Margaret Eve was hit by a transport truck on Highway 401 near Chatham in June 2000, while Inspector Dale Linton, the officer who activated Deane's unit that night, was killed in a single-vehicle accident near Smiths Falls in October 2000.

Though Deane was convicted of criminal negligence causing death he received an estimated one million dollars in a settlement with the Ontario Provincial Police.^[3].

Deane was a member of the Tactics and Rescue Unit (TRU) and also an explosives expert with the OPP.

During his criminal trial, the judge, Mr. Justice Hugh Fraser, stated, "it was not officer Deane's decision to enter the park on that fateful day." This was a decision that would cut short an otherwise promising career of this officer. But the judge additionally declared:

I find, sir, that you were not honest in presenting this version of events to the Ontario Provincial Police investigators. You were not honest in presenting this version of events to the Special Investigations Unit of the Province of Ontario. You were not honest in maintaining this ruse before this court."^[4].

Deane appealed his conviction all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, who upheld Justice Fraser's decision.^[5]^[6]