A defence lawyer for former Surrey, B.C., mayor Doug McCallum says his client should be acquitted of a public mischief charge because the Crown failed to prove he intended to mislead police by saying his foot was run over.
Eric Gottardi says any embellishments in McCallum’s statement to police that a woman with a history of harassing him peeled away from a supermarket parking lot were due to confusion following a frightening incident.
In the videotaped statement shown in court, McCallum says he recognized Debi Johnstone as a campaigner for a group wanting to keep the RCMP in Surrey while he was planning to replace it with a municipal police force….