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A confidential informant injured in an inmate attack on a prison after his identity was revealed by police has filed a multi-million dollar civil lawsuit against the Peel Regional Police.
The lawsuit was filed after a criminal judge determined that the whistleblower’s rights had been violated and the charges against the whistleblower were dropped.
“The police incited TB to step onto the limb and then they sawed off the limb behind him/her,” Ontario Supreme Court Justice F. Bruce Fitzpatrick wrote in his reasoning in the 2020 decision.
Fitzpatrick omitted details that might have identified the informer, whose initials are not TB. He did not name Peel’s police, nor did he name the officers.
CBC News has uncovered a multi-million dollar lawsuit filed by the whistleblower and his family against Peel Regional Police, individual officers in forces west of Toronto and the province of Ontario. The events described in the document coincide with the events described by Fitzpatrick in his ruling.
“The police deliberately, brazenly and calculatedly revealed the identity of TB,” Fitzpatrick wrote in his ruling.
According to the lawsuit, the police tricked the man into believing he was not being recorded while he was unknowingly caught on camera giving information about serious crimes.
As a result of the police action, Fitzpatrick granted TB’s motion to drop the criminal charges against him and claimed that his Charter rights had been violated.
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