KAWARTHA LAKES- The province’s Special Investigations Unit has found there are no reasonable grounds to believe that any of the officers involved in the events that culminated in a man’s death in Clarington failed to comport themselves within the limits of the criminal law, leaving no basis for proceeding with criminal charges in this case.
“On my assessment of the evidence, there are no reasonable grounds to believe that any of the officers involved in this incident committed a criminal offence in connection with the Complainant’s death.” said SIU Director Joseph Martino. “There is no indication of any force having been directly applied to the Complainant by any police officer, and certainly none in connection with the mortal neck wounds he suffered. Those, the evidence makes clear, were self-inflicted by the Complainant at the end of a police pursuit.”
