A former Vancouver police officer has been given a one-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting a female officer while she was intoxicated in a hotel suite in Whistler.
Jagraj (Roger) Berar was convicted in October after performing a sexual act on the victim in his hotel suite on July 15, 2019, after she had thrown up and blacked out.
Berar, who is no longer part of the Vancouver Police Department, was suspended with pay when the allegations were first brought forward.
His defence lawyers had asked for a one-year sentence, while Crown prosecutors requested he serve between 12 and 15 months behind bars.
Outside provincial court in North Vancouver, the victim, who cannot be publicly identified, told Global News that sitting in silence is unhealthy.
“When I set out on this journey, I knew that I would suffer career-wise, I knew that I would suffer emotionally, I knew all that,” she said.
“But I knew I had to take a predator and put him in the right place. And so that was just a culmination of everything that I’ve suffered through over the last couple of years.”
– with files from Andrea Macpherson
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