A 45-year-old man who conspired with a friend at KRCC to keep an assault victim from testifying in court escaped a jail sentence Monday.
B.C. Supreme Court justice Ian Meiklem agreed with a joint submission by Crown and defence lawyers, who suggested a conditional sentence served in the community.
Alexander Waites pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice.
Crown lawyer Don Mann said Waites and a co-accused, Randy Tournour, worked with a friend who was in jail facing charges related to a violent attack against his common-law wife. They conspired with him to encourage her not to testify. She was in a vulnerable position, Mann said.