Stanley Cup riot cost $8.8 million in losses and to prosecute: report
VICTORIA — Prosecutors spent almost $5 million bringing hundreds of people to justice for participating in Vancouver’s 2011 Stanley Cup riot, says a new report by the B.C. government.
The report released Monday by Joyce DeWitt-Van Oosten, assistant deputy attorney general, gives the public a “behind-the-scenes look” at how the cases proceeded through the court system.
It is also intended to answer public questions about why it took the Criminal Justice Branch as long as it did to proceed with charges and prosecutions.
In fact, as of January, the prosecutions were “very close to completion,” said DeWitt-Van Oosten.