His five victims didn’t stand a chance. In a lengthy judgment delivered over Zoom, Ontario Superior Court Justice Michael Code said he didn’t believe a word of excuses or alternate theories proposed by Matharu and convicted him on four counts of criminal negligence causing death and one causing bodily harm. “He knew that driving on insufficient sleep put public safety, and his own safety, at risk. He simply chose to take the risk, apparently giving his own financial self-interest priority,” Code said. Matharu, 40, had been driving for 26 hours to deliver a 21,500 kilo-trailer of pork to the Maple Leaf Foods plant in Hannon, near Hamilton. He had been told to get there “ASAP.”