A Charlottetown man charged with causing the death of two people this summer, five months after his licence was suspended for a previous impaired driving conviction, is asking to be released from jail while the court case continues.

Thommachen Thomas Panackal was charged with two counts of impaired driving causing death and two counts of driving with over 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood causing death, all in relation to a single-vehicle crash in Albany in August.

The 25-year…