Lawyers for Montreal billionaire Robert Miller asked a judge on Tuesday for a delay in his sex crimes case, arguing that his frail health makes it difficult to discuss the Crown’s evidence with him.
The 81-year-old founder of Future Electronics was arrested in May on 21 sex-related counts involving 10 complainants, many of them minors at the time of the alleged offences between 1994 and 2016. One of the alleged victims was under the age of 14.
Miller, who has denied the allegations, is charged with sexual assault, sexual interference, enticing a person to commit prostitution, sexual exploitation and sexual intercourse for consideration with a minor….