CRIMINAL OFFENCE AND NO JAIL TIME

This is a very scary case. Last Saturday's (July 28/12) Waterloo Region Record has this story "Former RCMP officer gets no jail time for obstruction". What concerns me above and beyond the appropriate obstruction of justice conviction is everything else that is left unsaid. This officer, namely Cpl. Benjamin Robinson, killed a young motorcyclist with his car. Who was at fault for the accident? That Cpl. Robinson had been drinking was not in dispute but does not necessarily prove his fault for the fatal accident. Unfortunately the vast majority of vehicle fatalities occur with stone sober drivers. HUA was and is the biggest cause of car accidents (HUA- head up ass). The criminal conviction relates to this experienced officer leaving the scene of the accident, ostensibly to take his children home. While at home and prior to returning to the scene he downed a couple more alcoholic beverages. In effect these post accident drinks made it impossible to prove if he was impaired before the accident as any experienced police officer would know.

I said this was a scary case. It gets more so. Cpl Robinson is still before the courts on another totally unrelated charge. Sort of. He is charged with perjury in connection with his testimony at the public inquiry concerning the Polish immigrant's (Mr. Dziekanski) death at the Vancouver airport in 2007. Yup Mr. Robinson was there and indeed was one of the FOUR RCMP officers who took turns tasering Mr. Dziekanski. The one small relief is that Mr. Robinson is no longer a RCMP officer. My question is will he or should he be in jail for either or both of these tragedies? The public deserve to know ALL the facts not half of them.