Nicholas Villeneuve has been sentenced to six years in prison and handed a seven-year driving ban for killing two people and seriously injuring two others while driving drunk on the TCH near Gander in July 2019.

Villeneuve, now 26, was convicted of impaired driving causing death and impaired driving causing bodily harm in the crash that killed John and Sandra Lush and seriously injured their daughter, Suzanne and her boyfriend, Josh Whiteway.

Judge Jacqueline Jenkins actually sentenced Villeneuve to six years for each of the four offences but ordered them to run concurrently, at the same time, instead of consecutively, one after the other.

Villeneuve appeared in Gander provincial court by telephone from the West Coast Correctional Centre for his sentencing this afternoon.

He was acquitted during his first trial after a judge ruled his Charter rights were violated.

That was overturned by the Court of Appeal, which ordered a new trial.