Former mayor of Surrey, B.C., Doug McCallum has been found not guilty of public mischief by a provincial court judge.
McCallum was charged after telling police that a woman opposed to his plans to replace the Surrey RCMP with a municipal police force used her car to run over his foot in a grocery store parking lot last year.
Police declined to charge Debi Johnstone after the Sept. 4, 2021, confrontation, and instead investigated McCallum for allegedly making a false claim.
But Judge Reginald Harris said he found Johnstone’s testimony unreliable when she said she didn’t run over McCallum’s foot….