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Conditional discharge for ex-B.C. Mountie, who had sex with vulnerable woman
Judge Reginald Harris ordered 18 months of probation, saying a criminal record was not needed to deter Mark Tyler Hilland.
- On Friday, Sept. 11, Judge Reginald Harris sentenced former Nanaimo RCMP officer Mark Tyler Hilland to a conditional discharge for breach of trust, allowing him to avoid a criminal record following a July 2024 incident.
- Hilland suffered from PTSD with depression and mood changes beginning in 2019 after responding to "the majority of critical incidents" in Nanaimo; he initially avoided professional help because he feared it "would undermine his reputation."
- Crown counsel Andrew McLean described the July 3, 2024, sexual encounter as "negative," noting it "triggered traumatic memories from her past involvement in the sex trade." The woman was already vulnerable after another man propositioned her that night.
- Hilland, officially discharged from the RCMP on Aug. 14, received 18 months' probation with a no-contact order and a requirement to write an apology letter delivered by his probation officer.
- Judge Harris ruled the discharge was not contrary to the public interest, citing Hilland's clean criminal record and guilty plea. Harris found that without PTSD, "he would not have engaged in the impulsive, self-destructive behaviour" forming the offence.
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