Supreme Court rejects appeals in Dziekanski case
Posted October 30, 2017 10:10 am.
Last Updated October 30, 2017 6:06 pm.
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OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed appeals from two men convicted of perjury in connection with a notorious Taser death at Vancouver’s airport in 2007.
The court rejected the appeals immediately after hearing them.
Kwesi Millington and Benjamin (Monty) Robinson were among four Mounties charged with perjury following a public inquiry into the death of Robert Dziekanski, who was jolted several times with a Taser at in the arrivals area of the airport.
Millington and Robinson were convicted; the other two RCMP members were acquitted.
Millington was sentenced to 30 months in prison and Robinson was sentenced to two years less a day, one year of probation and 240 hours of community service.
Because the justice ruled from the bench, formal reasons for their decision were not immediately available.
Ten years ago this month, Dziekanski, a Polish immigrant, spent hours lost in the airport, growing increasingly distraught before he was jolted multiple times by a police stun gun.
Dziekansi’s mother, Zofia Cisowksi who lives in Kamloops, says she started to shake and cry when she heard their convictions have been upheld.
“I’m crying because I was waiting for this decision and I was crying and I couldn’t stop. I take medicine because I was crying and I couldn’t even talk and I was shaking because I was so happy.”
“I am so happy even just two of them convicted.”
She says she believes her 40-year-old son’s death could have been prevented and she fears what happened to him could happen again.
“Not much changed. Not enough. They just talking and talking higher authorities from the RCMP. They never changed much. They just talk.”
