A military justice watchdog says an investigation of a sexual assault claim against former army officer Dany Fortin was “compromised” by “tunnel vision,” bias and a lack of oversight.
On Tuesday, the Military Police Complaints Commission released its final report on the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service’s probe of a sexual assault allegation dating back to 1988, when Fortin was at military college.
In a news release, the commission says the evidence doesn’t support Fortin’s claim that his prosecution was driven by “undue external pressure to uncritically accept the alleged victim’s allegations at face value.”
But commission chairperson Tammy Tremblay does conclude military investigators’ handling of Fortin’s case showed signs of “investigative bias, inadequate supervisory oversight, and a failure to uphold core investigative standards.”…