Perjury conviction upheld for former Mountie linked to Dziekanski case
VANCOUVER — A former Mountie convicted of perjury in relation to the death of a Polish man at Vancouver’s airport in 2007 has lost his appeal.
In a two-to-one decision, a panel of Appeal Court judges in British Columbia upheld a lower court’s decision that found Benjamin (Monty) Robinson lied during a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Robert Dziekanski.
“The judge’s findings cannot in my view be said to have been unreasonable,” Justice Mary Newbury wrote for the majority.
Robinson was the senior of four officers called to the Vancouver International Airport on Oct. 14, 2007, after Dziekanski, who did not speak English and had arrived almost 10 hours earlier, began throwing furniture in the arrivals terminal.