Supreme Court upholds sex assault conviction of former Sudbury track coach and star sprinter
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The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed an appeal by a former Sudbury track coach and his star sprinter five years after they were convicted of sexual assault.
In 2021, David Case and Celine Loyer were found guilty of bringing a 19-year-old Sudbury waitress to Case's home one night in 2011 and then drugging and sexually assaulting her.
They both appealed and the majority of the justices on the Court of Appeal ruled against them in December 2024.
However, one justice argued the Sudbury trial judge had been "illogical and irrational" in assuming that the alleged victim's flashback of the assault was an actual memory and not just a dream.
That was enough for Case and Loyer's lawyers to file another appeal with the highest court in the land, the Supreme Court of Canada.
In a unanimous ruling released this month, it dismissed the appeal.
That means that Loyer will now go to jail to begin serving her 16-month sentence and Case will now add 16 months to his prison time.
He is already serving three years and nine months for sexually and physically assaulting one of his teenage runners back in the 1980s.
Case was convicted of those assaults by a Sudbury court in 2020, but he also filed an appeal in that matter and did not go to prison until it was dismissed in the spring of 2025.
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