Crown asking for one-year sentence in ex-Rider Justin Cox assault case

Former Saskatchewan Roughrider Justin Cox will have to wait two weeks to learn his sentence after pleading guilty to a 2017 assault.

Cox was in Regina courtroom Tuesday afternoon, after pleading guilty to assault causing bodily harm on Sept. 5.

The Crown is asking for a one-year sentence plus probation while the defence is asking for less jail time, with probation and anger management.

In the summer of 2017, Regina police received word of a woman in the hospital who was the victim of an apparent assault.

A man who assisted the 23-year-old woman told police that he happened upon what appeared to be a physical altercation while driving down 10th Avenue.

In her victim impact statement, she said she believes she would have lost her life if she hadn’t run away that day.

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Later that evening, a man entered a business on the 1600 block of Albert Street claiming he had been robbed.

The employee offered to call the police, but the man declined and left the store. He later returned to grab the hat he had left behind.

Police allege the man pointed a gun at the woman working and then left.

Cox was arrested shortly after in front of a residence in the 900 block of Stanley Street.

He made two court appearances on assault and weapons charges on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 of 2017.

On Oct. 5 of this year, police issued a news release asking for the public’s help in locating the 25-year-old.

Cox, once again, had been charged with assault after police found an injured woman in a residence in east Regina on Sept. 5.

He has since been arrested, with that trial set to begin on March 18, 2019.