A man from southwestern Ontario has been acquitted on charges of uttering death threats against Sophie Grégoire Trudeau and 10 female members of Parliament while he was on a VIA train earlier this year. Coburg police arrested Platts at the terminal and later charged him with two counts of uttering threats to cause death. Police also seized a cellphone, laptop computer, six paper notebooks, and hundreds of scraps of papers filled with writing. He was acquitted the following day, but not before spending more than seven months in jail until his trial. The judge in the case noted that Platts’ words alone, without context, were not enough to convict him.

Source: National Post August 31, 2016 17:48 UTC