The accused was charged with 15 offences arising from an incident on February 5, 2018, where he allegedly confronted his former spouse at her home with a loaded sawed-off shotgun, threatened to kill her and two men, and forcibly confined her.
The Crown's case relied primarily on the credible testimony of the complainant, corroborated by independent witness evidence, forensic firearms analysis, and circumstantial evidence including a shotgun shell recovered from the scene.
The accused's defence was that he possessed only a pellet gun and had no knowledge of the shotgun or ammunition.
The court found the complainant to be a credible and reliable witness and the accused's testimony to be illogical, internally inconsistent, and contradicted by external evidence.
The court convicted on all counts.
