Three years later, someone’s finally paying for the nightclub fire during a Great White concert that led to the deaths of 100 people…and it’s the band’s tour manager.
Daniel Biechele pled guilty to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter and, as a result, received 15 years in prison…but with all but four years suspended. “The greatest sentence that can be imposed upon you has been imposed upon you by yourself,” Superior Court Judge Francis Darigan told Biechele, according to the Associated Press.
I can see where family members would say that four years isn’t nearly enough for all the deaths that resulted from the band’s pyrotechnics, but Biechele is, as was noted by his attorney during the proceedings, the only one who’s been willing to stand up and admit that he had a hand in what happened…unlike the guys who installed the flammable soundproofing material at the club, who’ve pled not guilty from the get-go.
