VANCOUVER – A B.C. lawyer who admitted to feeding information to a violent gang in the North Okanagan has had his sentence increased to two-and-a-half years.
The B.C. Court of Appeal says the one-year sentence originally handed to William Mastop was too lenient.
Mastop, a lawyer in Vernon, pleaded guilty to passing along information about police activities, such as search warrant documents, to a gang known as The Greeks.
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Court heard he also tracked down drug runners who had been arrested or who had talked to the police and took members of the gang to a local gun club as his guests to practise shooting.
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In a unanimous decision from the Appeal Court, Justice Sunni Stromberg-Stein says the one-year sentence originally handed to Mastop was unfit and failed to reflect the gravity of his crimes.
Stromberg-Stein says Mastop abused a position of trust, and he passed along information knowing his actions could cause harm, including to confidential police informants.
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