Jennifer Saltman (Vancouver Province) – Charges have been stayed for an RCMP officer accused of driving drunk and fleeing after a fender-bender three years ago.
Const. Kulwant Singh Malhi, 43, was charged in 2008 with failure to stop at an accident, impaired driving and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle.
Malhi was arrested after a series of events that occurred in Richmond on the morning of Oct. 20, 2007.
Shortly before 3 a.m. a Nissan Altima rear-ended a Honda Civic at No. 4 and Francis roads, police say. Half an hour later, a member of the public called police about an impaired driver heading south on Hwy. 99 and the caller followed the car until it pulled into a Ladner driveway, they say.
Delta police arrived minutes later and arrested Malhi.
At the time Malhi was off-duty, having finished his shift with an plainclothes unit hours earlier, and driving an unmarked police car, police say.
The charges were stayed by a judge in B.C. Provincial Court in Richmond Thursday on the third and final day of Malhi’s trial.
Malhi remains suspended with pay and a Code of Conduct investigation is under way.
Stayed on the third day of the trial. Resonates of some technicality thanks to the Charter.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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