Court clears Halifax man of canoe-kayak club voyeurism charges

A Nova Scotia justice has recovered a Halifax antheral not blameworthy of voyeurism charges stemming from allegations helium filmed respective women without their consent successful a nationalist washroom successful Dartmouth.

Provincial tribunal Judge Jill Hartlen told a Dartmouth courtroom Monday that she had excessively galore concerns astir the grounds presented against Matthew Douglas Moriarty.

Hartlen said that among her concerns, she would person had to judge Moriarty was a “criminal mastermind,” susceptible of deleting each forensic grounds from his phone, successful bid to convict him.

Moriarty was accused of signaling women past twelvemonth astatine a canoe-kayak nine by slipping a telephone into a brace of mesh shorts and leaving the garment connected the bath level adjacent the divider betwixt stalls.

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He was besides charged past twelvemonth with intersexual battle successful narration to a 2021 incidental astatine a schoolhouse involving idiosyncratic who was nether 18.

A spokesperson from the provincial nationalist prosecutions work says the sexual-assault complaint was dismissed successful June aft a 12-month bid enslaved was ordered.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Nov. 26, 2024.