Saskatchewan’s top court has dismissed the appeal of a man found guilty of kidnapping his then-7-year-old daughter in what the father described as an attempt to prevent her from receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal delivered its unanimous ruling on May 19, dismissing Michael Gordon Jackson’s appeals of his parental abduction conviction and his 12-month custodial sentence.
The three-judge panel issued its decision after considering arguments in Regina last month.
A jury convicted Michael Gordon Jackson of parental child abduction after a trial in Regina Court of King’s Bench in 2024. He was handed a one-year jail sentence that was completely offset by the 531 days he had already spent in custody, as well as a two-year probation order….