VANCOUVER — A retired RCMP inspector had a mistaken belief that a civilian employee consented to sexual activity in a washroom at the force’s British Columbia headquarters, the Crown says. Shields, 52, was charged with one count of sexual assault in May 2016 and has pleaded not guilty. The woman has testified Shields told her he had something important to tell her and that she followed him into the washroom she’d never seen, before he locked the door. However, Shields has testified the woman went further and “actively and enthusiastically” had sex with him and made no attempt to escape from the washroom. Booker said Shields portrayed the complainant as the initiator, instigator and aggressor while painting himself as the victim of her advances who simply reacted to the woman’s actions.

Source: National Post November 29, 2017 20:58 UTC