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A retired RCMP officer has been charged with one count of perjury for his testimony at the 2009 trial of a B.C. woman convicted of killing her own child.
Vancouver police announced the charge in a news release issued Tuesday.
Former staff sergeant Ross Spenard, a 32-year veteran of the RCMP, is accused of lying while testifying in B.C. Supreme Court in May 2009. He was testifying as an expert witness in bloodstain pattern analysis during the second-degree murder trial of Charlie Rae Lincoln.
During cross-examination by defence council at the 2009 trial, Spenard admitted he did not tell the whole truth in his earlier testimony.
Justice John Truscott then advised the jury to ignore Spenard's evidence.
"Staff Sgt. Spenard is the perfect example of a person who clearly lied under oath and violated his oath to tell the truth and he even agreed to this," Trustcott said. "That conclusion is so clear and convincing, and so serious, that I suggest you should consider his evidence to be completely tainted, and without any value whatsoever."
The jury still found Lincoln found guilty of the July 2006 stabbing death of her two-year-old daughter in Bella Bella, B.C.
An investigation into Spenard's testimony was launched by Vancouver police following a complaint by regional Crown counsel in September 2009.
Spenard was also a member of the forensic investigation team that combed serial killer Robert Pickton's farm, and he appeared as one of the hundreds of witnesses called at Pickton's murder trial.
Police say all of Spenard's files have been reviewed and no significant concerns were found.
Lincoln has filed an appeal of her second-degree murder conviction.
A retired RCMP officer has been charged with one count of perjury for his testimony at the 2009 trial of a B.C. woman convicted of killing her own child.
Vancouver police announced the charge in a news release issued Tuesday.
Former staff sergeant Ross Spenard, a 32-year veteran of the RCMP, is accused of lying while testifying in B.C. Supreme Court in May 2009. He was testifying as an expert witness in bloodstain pattern analysis during the second-degree murder trial of Charlie Rae Lincoln.
During cross-examination by defence council at the 2009 trial, Spenard admitted he did not tell the whole truth in his earlier testimony.
Justice John Truscott then advised the jury to ignore Spenard's evidence.
"Staff Sgt. Spenard is the perfect example of a person who clearly lied under oath and violated his oath to tell the truth and he even agreed to this," Trustcott said. "That conclusion is so clear and convincing, and so serious, that I suggest you should consider his evidence to be completely tainted, and without any value whatsoever."
The jury still found Lincoln found guilty of the July 2006 stabbing death of her two-year-old daughter in Bella Bella, B.C.
An investigation into Spenard's testimony was launched by Vancouver police following a complaint by regional Crown counsel in September 2009.
Spenard was also a member of the forensic investigation team that combed serial killer Robert Pickton's farm, and he appeared as one of the hundreds of witnesses called at Pickton's murder trial.
Police say all of Spenard's files have been reviewed and no significant concerns were found.
Lincoln has filed an appeal of her second-degree murder conviction.
