Leslie Zamojc

The accused was convicted of aggravated assault and weapons offences against his estranged wife.

He subsequently failed to appear for sentencing and fled to Jamaica.

The court found he had absconded to avoid sentencing and proceeded to sentence him in absentia under s. 475(1) of the Criminal Code.

Weighing the aggravating factor of intimate partner violence against his lack of a prior record, the court imposed a sentence of 4 years' imprisonment, reduced by 1.5:1 credit for pre-trial custody.

The accused was charged with robbery, wearing a disguise, carrying a concealed weapon, and breaching probation after a man pulled a knife on three women at a bus stop and demanded their purses.

The central issue at trial was identification.

The court relied on eyewitness testimony from a victim who recognized the accused as a tenant in her building, corroborated by security camera footage and items seized from the accused's apartment.

The court found the accused guilty on all counts.

The accused was arrested for robbery and obstruct police.

After being convicted of obstruct police, he brought a Charter application seeking a stay of proceedings, alleging he was denied his right to counsel and gratuitously beaten by police in the fingerprint room.

The court found the s. 10(b) issue moot as the Crown did not seek to adduce the accused's statements.

The court dismissed the application for a stay, finding the accused's allegations of police brutality lacked credibility, were unsupported by physical evidence, and violated the rule in Browne v. Dunn as they were never put to the police officers during cross-examination.

The accused was sentenced following conviction for sexual assault and breach of probation after groping a woman on a public transit vehicle while subject to a prohibition against being on transit property.

The court considered the offender’s extensive criminal record for similar sexual offences and repeated breaches of court orders.

Although the offender argued that treatment for a paraphilic disorder should remain central to sentencing, the court concluded that previous rehabilitative approaches had failed.

Emphasizing denunciation, deterrence, and protection of the public, the court imposed consecutive custodial sentences and a lengthy probation order with transit prohibitions and no‑contact conditions.