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Longterm status sought for rapist

A Langley carjacker who already did time for rape could be declared a longterm offender. by Jennifer Saltman

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The Crown is seeking long-term offender status for a man who moved to B.C. after serving a six-year prison sentence for a series of rapes in Calgary. Andrew Aurie Jefferson, 29, pleaded guilty in January to robbery, and a two-day sentencing hearing began Tuesday in B.C. Provincial Court in Surrey. Crown prosecutor Crichton Pike said at the start of the hearing that he would be asking for four and a half to five years of jail time. Pike is also applying for long-term offender status – a designation that would allow the offender’s prison term to be followed by up to 10 years of supervision in the community. The offence that landed Jefferson in court on Tuesday took place in Langley on June 8, 2013, in Langley. He approached a woman in the parking lot of her apartment building

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and grabbed her from behind, saying, “You’re being stabbed, I’m taking your car.” He held a knife to her stomach and cut her. When the woman dropped her car keys, he took them and drove away in her car. A witness in the apartment building called 911, and Jefferson was quickly located and arrested by Langley RCMP. Pike said that when Jefferson was being photographed and fingerprinted by police, he said, “I’m f---ed. I’m going away for a while.” Jefferson is best known as the Falconridge Rapist, who terrorized a Calgary neighbourhood in 2006 with a series of armed rapes. He admitted to three attacks and was sentenced in 2007 to six and a half years in prison, less 30 months for time served. He served his entire sentence, and initially set to be released in the Okanagan, he ended up in Mission briefly before settling in Surrey. His arrival in each community was accompanied by public warnings. When Jefferson was released from prison, he was considered an untreated high-risk sexual offender. During his time in custody, he failed to complete high-intensity sex offender therapy and racked up a number of institutional charges.

He did little to rehabilitate himself in the first year and a half he was out of prison, instead repeatedly breaching a two-year peace bond issued by an Abbotsford judge. In October 2012 he was sentenced to one day in jail for a breaching of recognizance. He breached again in December 2012, and was sentenced to two months in jail and by three years of probation with 21 conditions. According to his probation officer, Jefferson resisted taking programs for violence prevention and substance abuse, claiming that he did not work well in a group setting. He also missed psychiatric appointments. Only after being arrested for the carjacking and spending an extended period of time in pretrial custody did Jefferson complete the violence prevention program and a series of online workshops. However, according to a psychiatric report, Jefferson remains a high risk to reoffend, because he hasn’t addressed his risk factors, such as attitude and substance abuse. “These behaviours are continuing and there hasn’t been a change,” Pike said. The hearing continues.

• More online at www.langleyadvance.com, search ‘Rapist’ - Jennifer Saltman is a reporter with the Vancouver Province

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