Disgraced Style Govt Nygard Will get 11-12 months Jail Sentence for Sexual Assault

Former Canadian vogue mogul Peter Nygard was sentenced to 11 years in jail by an Ontario decide after being discovered responsible on 4 counts of sexual assault.

Nygard acquired a sentence of three.5 years on one of many convictions and a pair of.5 years on every of the opposite three expenses. Prosecutors had been in search of a complete of 15 years.

“Peter Nygard is a sexual predator,” Justice Robert Goldstein of the Ontario Superior Court docket of Justice mentioned as he outlined his causes for the rejecting the disgraced former government’s request for a extra lenient six-year sentence. Nygard, the decide mentioned, used his wealth and energy to prey on girls, then used aggressive ways and degrading language that left his victims humiliated.

Nygard, 83, was wheeled into court docket sporting a black jacket with a black hood pulled over his head. He was given an opportunity to talk in court docket, however declined.

Nygard confronted six totally different legal expenses in a trial final yr. A jury in Toronto convicted him in November of assaulting quite a lot of girls, starting within the Nineteen Eighties. He was discovered not responsible on one depend of sexual assault and one depend of forcible confinement.

The ladies accusing Nygard ranged in age from 16 to their late 20s on the time the assaults occurred. The prosecution alleged Nygard had used his wealth and affect within the vogue business to lure girls to his firm’s Toronto headquarters, the place he assaulted them. Nygard met a number of the girls on journeys to the Bahamas.

Nygard’s sentencing was delayed as he turned over his authorized staff. Throughout the trial he was represented by Brian Greenspan, who spent weeks difficult the ladies on their accusations throughout cross examinations. He give up in January, citing moral causes.

Toronto lawyer Megan Savard, identified for representing musician Jacob Hoggard in a sexual assault trial, took on Nygard’s case till she, too, resigned. Nygard is now being represented by Gerri Wiebe, who advised reporters her shopper will attraction the sentence. She’s going to signify him on legal expenses he faces within the province of Manitoba, she mentioned.

In 2020, Nygard was arrested in Winnipeg on US expenses that he trafficked girls and women for intercourse over a interval of 25 years, and the next yr he agreed to US extradition on these expenses.

He’s been in jail for years and might be given credit score for time already served, making him eligible for full parole in 27 months.

Nygard based Nygard Worldwide within the Sixties, which grew to be one of many largest Canadian-owned sellers of ladies’s clothes. It filed for chapter safety in March 2020.

By Stephanie Hughes

Canadian Style Mogul Peter Nygard Responsible of 4 Counts of Sexual Assault

Former Canadian vogue mogul Peter Nygard was discovered responsible of 4 counts of sexual assault by a Toronto jury on Sunday, in accordance with CBC Information.