Sweet F***ing Jesus, here we go again...
Fair dealings etc...
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/06/12/pf-4253944.html
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Fair dealings etc...
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/06/12/pf-4253944.html
EDIT: Sorry, I think I posted this in the wrong thread, I was looking for the one where the individual claimed PTSD from Bosnia.Soldier guilty in bad date
Beat woman with tire iron
By TONY BLAIS, COURT BUREAU
An Edmonton soldier admitted yesterday to assaulting a woman he met through a telephone dating service by clubbing her over the head with a tire iron.
And court heard there are concerns the married soldier could be a sex addict.
Cpl. William Joseph Drake, 35, was sentenced to nine months in jail after pleading guilty in provincial court to the lesser and included charge of assault causing bodily harm.
SENTENCE SERVED
However, he has already served his sentence as a result of the time he has spent in pre-trial custody since being arrested for the armed attack.
Drake had been initially charged with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon in relation to the Sept. 15 incident in north Edmonton.
Court heard Drake, a military equipment driver with 1 Service Battalion, had met the victim on Quest dating line and then went to see her at her apartment near 174 Avenue and 95 Street about noon.
The woman was with her sister and when Drake said he wanted to have a drink, the sister left the suite, said Crown prosecutor Christian Lim.
Drake went to the bathroom and when he came out, he attacked the woman with a tire iron, said Lim.
The woman ended up on the ground and Drake continued to hit her on the head, face and arms, said Lim, adding she was bleeding from the back of her head.
WOMAN TREATED
Drake fled as the woman screamed loudly and she called 911, said Lim. Police officers found her covered in blood and she was treated in hospital and released.
Drake was arrested several days later after police used a search warrant to raid an apartment near 131 Street and 153 Avenue.
During the sentencing, Lim noted a psychiatrist who completed an assessment of Drake had written there were concerns the soldier might suffer from a sexual addiction.
Defence lawyer Gwilym Davies told court Drake suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a result of seeing atrocities while serving in Bosnia.
Davies was also successful in getting the judge to not impose the mandatory 10-year firearms prohibition against Drake so it would not interfere with his military career.
Capt. Shauna Bruce, a military spokesman with 1 Service Battalion, said it is not known yet whether the criminal conviction will affect Drake's job as a soldier, but added the case will be reviewed.
Meanwhile, Drake is slated to go to trial on Nov. 9 on a charge of break and enter stemming from an incident on May 13, 2006.
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