Posted: May 12, 2021 7:33 PM NT | Last Updated: May 13
RNC Const. Doug Snelgrove enters court ahead of closing arguments in his sexual assault retrial on Wednesday. (Malone Mullin/CBC)
The St. John s police officer being tried this week on a sex assault charge may have induced consent through an abuse of trust, prosecution argued Wednesday, calling him a knight in shining armour who set the plate for an opportunity to have sex with a vulnerable young woman while in uniform and on duty.
It marked the third time both Const. Doug Snelgrove and the complainant listened to attorneys pick apart their testimony.
Justice Vikas Khaladkar selected a jury panel Wednesday morning, launching attempt number three at a trial for Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officer Doug Snelgrove.
Dec 11, 2020 12:40 PM
A man convicted of attempted murder after trying to push another man off Signal Hill has been sentenced to four years in jail.
The 31-year-old is being credited for time-served, leaving 1,217 days or just over three years left to be served.
Justice Vikas Khaladkar also ordered the man to supply a DNA sample and that he have no contact or communication with the complainant.
According to the judgment, the man, who suffered from acute depression, concocted a murder-suicide plan in April of 2017, enticing the other man to go with him to Signal Hill to go “skiing.”
He convinced the other man to join him at Ladies’ Lookout, then tackled him and the two tumbled together down the slope. They got caught up in thick vegetation, and neither was seriously injured.
Posted: Dec 10, 2020 3:35 PM NT | Last Updated: December 10, 2020
Two men became entangled in vegetation just below a cliff at Ladies Lookout on Signal Hill on April 7, 2017. The incident led to attempted murder charges and eventually a conviction.(Ryan Cooke/CBC)
The sordid story of an Iranian PhD student and an ill-fated trip to Signal Hill has come to an end, for now, with a judge imposing a four-year prison sentence for attempted murder.
The man cannot be named, due to a publication ban issued on the first day of his trial.
He was convicted as charged for tackling his close friend atop a steep cliff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean on April 7, 2017. The two men fell only a few feet, and got tangled in vegetation sparing them both from what the judge ruled was a murder-suicide plot.