WARNING: This story contains graphic descriptions of assault and sexual assault.
An Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer already convicted of sexual assault, and awaiting sentencing, has been found guilty of nine additional violent offences connected to a separate court matter.
In the latest conviction, Jason Redmond was accused of 11 offences related to incidents that took place between 2019 and 2021. He pleaded not guilty.
Reading from her judgment in a Brockville courtroom Friday afternoon, Justice Donna Hackett ran through the evidence she heard in connection with the case, providing details for 13 instances where Redmond was alleged to have attacked a woman.
The incidents described by the Crown and witnesses involved choking, punching, pushing and causing the woman to be cut by a knife.
The victim's identity is protected by a publication ban. She is not the same person connected to Redmond's conviction for sexual assault.
Hackett found him guilty of five counts of assault, three counts of assault causing bodily harm and one count of assault with a weapon.
Acquitted on 2 charges
Redmond, a Leeds County OPP officer, was also charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life and an assault that allegedly involved an infant. Hackett said she wasn't satisfied the Crown had met the burden of proof for those two charges, so he was acquitted on both.
The defence had raised questions about the credibility of the complainant as both she and Redmond were using drugs around the time of the attacks, but the judge determined the complainant was a reliable witness.
Hackett referenced photos the woman had shared with the court, which showed her with blackened eyes, bruises, red marks and what appeared to be dried blood on her face and body.
Her injuries were "numerous" and witnesses involved in the case also referenced other photos, which pointed to it being a "long-standing, abusive relationship," the judge said.
There was a delay in the victim reporting the incidents to investigators, but Hackett noted Redmond is a police officer and that would "reasonably cause additional concern in this particular case about reporting him to his colleagues or associates."
"To report a peace officer to the police would be intimidating for anyone," Hackett said.
On paid leave from OPP since 2015
Redmond was previously convicted of drug trafficking in 2018, but received one year of probation and no jail time. He has been on paid leave from the OPP since he was charged in that case in 2015.
In an emailed statement, OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique told CBC the force has been seeking Redmond's dismissal since his initial conviction for drug trafficking.
The officer has also been found guilty in an unrelated case for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman while recording it on his mobile phone in 2017.
Court previously heard from witnesses in that case that Redmond committed sexual assault, and filmed it, to show the victim "how easily she could be raped when she was drunk," and "to teach [her] a lesson."
Sentencing for the sexual assault is scheduled to take place June 16.
Hackett did not provide a date for sentencing on the assault charges, but the matter is set to be spoken to on the same date.
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