Supreme Court to hand down ruling on Beltline rapists’ appeal

CALGARY – Judgement is expected from the Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday in the case of Wafid Delaa.

The Calgary man, known as the Beltline rapist, was convicted of eight charges in 2006 for attacks on two women who were inside their homes when he raped them.

The charges related to sexual assaults on a 19-year-old in September 2003 and a 17-year-old schoolgirl in March 2004.

He appealed the sentence to the Alberta Court of Appeal in 2009 claiming that police breached his Charter of Rights by taking DNA evidence, linking him to the crimes, from chewing gum.

Alberta’s high court ruled police were within their rights, so Delaa took the case to the Supreme Court of Canda.

He has been given dangerous offender status.