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Crown seeks jail time for Mountie who shot Gillespie SARAH SIMPSON CITIZEN
With many of the children costumed for the event, families pile into the cars to ride the Halloween rails through the BC Forest Discovery Centre woods. The day included lots of activities, too, and the chance to see various scary sites set up around the grounds, like a blacksmith shop working on a skeleton crew and a bride simply dying to go to her wedding in a horse drawn carriage. Organizers say close to 4,700 visitors flocked to the centre for the fun this year. For more photos and video from a trip on the Halloween Train, scan this image with the Layar app on your smart phone or go to www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com [LEXI BAINAS/CITIZEN]
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Four years have passed without resolution in the aggravated assault case of Const. David Pompeo, but the former North Cowichan/ Duncan RCMP officer was in court Thursday for the first of two days of sentencing. Crown prosecutor Carmen Rogers asked Provincial Court Judge Josiah Wood to impose a jail sentence in the range of 18 months to two years less a day and to prohibit Pompeo from firearms. “How the Crown comes to that range is by looking at the law for aggravated assault,” Rogers said. “This is aggravated assault.” Pompeo was convicted of aggravated assault after shooting Bill Gillespie during a routine traffic stop on Sept. 18, 2009. Rogers said the primary sentencing objectives should be denunciation and general deterrence and it should keep in mind the impact the events have on the victim. “It’s only by luck he was not killed by this,” Rogers said. “I think it’s fair to say the impact had been significant physically, emotionally, and financially.”
“This clearly falls at the bottom of the range…but it’s not a case that falls out of the range,” CARMEN ROGERS, Crown counsel
While the true range available for Judge Wood to consider in the aggravated assault case is anywhere from a suspended sentence to 14 years in jail, Rogers said her recommendation was fitting. “This clearly falls at the bottom of the range…but it’s not a case that falls out of the range,” she said. Rogers argued that while Pompeo’s case was not one of gratuitous violence, “it was a miscalculation of a very significant variety.” Citing case law, the prosecutor said that by virtue of him being a police officer, Pompeo held a place of trust and broke that. As a result, she said, the Mountie should be punished more severely than a civilian in the same circumstances. See Judge questions • page 3
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