In the weeks leading up to the offences, he was distressed and went to a hospital emergency department several times feeling suicidal.Ī Gladue report, prepared for sentencing, found Legare grew up in an unstable environment and experienced poverty, physical, sexual and mental abuse, family violence, criminal behaviour and the normalization of substance abuse. Legare’s history of drug and alcohol use dated back to age of 11, said the psychiatrist, who found Legare has dealt with lifelong, severe and persistent mental illness from his youth. However, the psychiatrist said he did not have enough evidence to assess whether Legare understood or appreciated his actions or knew they were wrong. Legare was assessed by a forensic psychiatrist, who concluded he was suffering from an altered mental state - substance-use-induced psychosis - at the time of the offences. The judge also noted that the trial was adjourned in February after the defence raised concerns about Legare’s mental health. Thompson clarified that he was not sentencing Legare for grabbing the woman’s hair or the assaults in the car, but mentioned them to give context to the threat and the aggravated assault. She was treated in hospital for injuries, including a right orbital floor fracture and a right orbital wall fracture.Īt the time, both Legare and his partner were using cocaine, crystal meth and MDMA, the judge noted. 13, Legare punched her in the face and ribs and choked her to the point of incontinence. In their bedroom later that night or in the early hours of Aug. He put a lit cigarette out on her face just below her right temple and uttered the “disturbing” threat, said Thompson. Later that evening, sitting in a car in an alley behind the house, he put his hands on her neck, pushed her up against a window, grabbed her hair and tried to serrate it with a knife. 12, 2018, Legare dragged the woman by her hair on a trail behind their Colville Road house in Esquimalt. The physical and emotional damage is significant and unlikely ever to completely resolve.”Įvidence at trial revealed that in the early evening hours of Aug. “I am sure was terrified during the assault. Supreme Court Justice Douglas Thompson said Friday as he imposed sentence. “The assault was a vicious attack on an intimate partner,” B.C. In September, Mathew David Legare was convicted of threatening and aggravated assault on his partner, whose identity is protected by a court order. A Victoria man who punched and choked his partner and threatened to have her put through a woodchipper has been sentenced to 30 months in jail followed by 18 months of probation.
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