Crown prosecutors have stayed domestic assault charges against a 麻豆精选 Hells Angels prospect.
Jason Townsend, 43, was charged in August 2020 with assault and assault by choking. The BC Prosecution Service (BCPS) marked the file as an intimate partner violence case.
Townsend鈥檚 two-day trial was meant to begin Monday (May 3), but the Crown stayed the charges.
鈥淭he decision to stay the charges was made after Crown counsel with conduct of the file received information that lead him to conclude the charge assessment standard could no longer be met,鈥� said BCPS communications counsel Dan McLaughlin, adding the Crown received the new information within the last few weeks.
When the charges were first announced, the 麻豆精选 RCMP said Townsend fled the scene before police arrived at a Yates Road home early on the morning of Aug. 7, 2020. Officers were able to speak with the victim, who suffered non-life-threatening injuries, and determined she and Townsend knew each other. Later the same day, Townsend turned himself in to police.
Several photos on Townsend鈥檚 Facebook page show him wearing a leather vest with red and white patches that read 鈥淧rospect鈥� and 鈥溌槎咕�.鈥� He has also shared several promotional photos for poker runs leaving from the Hells Angels鈥� clubhouse at 837 Ellis Street.
Earlier this week, a man described by police as a 鈥渒nown prospect鈥� of the 麻豆精选 Hells Angels, Colin Michael Bayley, pleaded guilty to an aggravated assault charge stemming from a May 2019 assault. Bayley鈥檚 sentencing date has yet to be set.
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