A judge has stayed all charges in the sexual assault case against disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard in Winnipeg, after determining that police’s failure to retain records related to allegations stemming from the 1990s violated his right to a fair trial.
A judge has stayed all charges in the sexual assault case against disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard in Winnipeg.
The judge concluded that the police’s failure to retain records relating to allegations stemming from the 1990s violated his right to a fair trial.
Nygard appeared via video link in a Winnipeg courtroom, where provincial court Judge Mary Kate Harvie read her decision Wednesday following arguments in the case in September.
The plaintiff in the case alleged that Nygard sexually assaulted her in his Winnipeg warehouse in 1993. Nygard’s trial on those allegations was scheduled for December.
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