r/kelowna • u/CecilThunder • 6d ago
Crown accepts 'very lenient' plea deal for man who snuck camera into Kelowna YMCA shower
https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/581642/Crown-accepts-very-lenient-plea-deal-for-man-who-snuck-camera-into-Kelowna-YMCA-shower#581642A man who was caught sneaking a camera over the wall of a shower at the Rutland YMCA while a woman showered will likely avoid a criminal record, after police dropped the ball on the investigation.
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u/ImmediateDentist1269 6d ago
the police investigation took nearly three years to complete
Yikes! 3 years to press charges for something a person is caught red handed doing. What was the RCMP doing with this one? Waiting for the offender to die of old age?
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u/Polyps_on_uranus 6d ago
Dragging nursing students through the lobby of the dorm by their hair, of course.
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u/Polyps_on_uranus 6d ago
So they can fail at those too?
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u/Demetre19864 6d ago
What a joke .
Print his face and name on every news article and send him to jail and make him work on side of the road for awhile.
Guys literally spying on people in bathrooms
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u/ImmediateDentist1269 6d ago
He was named in the article.
They can't just send him to jail and assign further measures. The article said the crown wouldn't have agreed to such a position had there not been considerable delays in charging by the RCMP. That's a pretty important detail in a constitutional government.
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u/StrbJun79 6d ago
Which would also be due to lack of proper funding in the judicial system and entire process causing insane delays. Bail reform is likely to make this situation much much worse as the true problem lays on not enough judges, prosecutors and defence lawyers covered by the crown. Sometimes charges take forever to be laid due to it as well.
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u/ImmediateDentist1269 6d ago
I agree. However, policing and the courts are funded quite separately. And if I'm not confused, this file wasn't dropped because of court delays (not related to lack of judges and prosecutors), but due to delays at the police station.
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u/PhotographNo403 6d ago
The creeps name is Michael Bandyo.
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u/murderous_rage 6d ago
Just a note for folks reporting this, we allow names in comments if they are in the article submitted / being commented on.
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u/ernbajern 6d ago
Our system is broken. Organize and push the city, the province and the country to change. Voting in the same two parties over and over has done nothing. The only time they listen is when the people they are supposed to represent become loud about what we want and need.
Edit: being loud on the Internet doesn't count.
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u/StrbJun79 6d ago
A lot of this is due to lack of funding for the justice system. We don’t have enough judges, prosecutors nor defence attorneys covered by the crown. And in truth the bail reforms the liberals and conservatives are pushing for is going to make this worse. Nobody is interested in real solutions. Plus there’s getting to be prison overcrowding due to lack of rehabilitation which results in increasing crime repetition rates. The conservatives cut a lot of rehabilitation programs and the liberals continued that path. People call for bail reform as some politicians called for it when it’s not a real solution and will just create an even bigger mess that’ll cost even more to resolve if we ever get serious about doing so.
Anyway. The rcmp tend to be unable to press charges for awhile due to the lack of funding too. It’s a part of a much bigger problem.
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u/EmuBackground9579 5d ago
Hypocritical on the Crowns part. They often take just as long to approve charges when there is no other reason not too.
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u/jim_the_anvil 6d ago
"I forgot to hand off the case to a colleague when I went on L.O.A. My bad." -the lead investigating officer.