Canadian fashion mogul Nygard sentenced to 11 years for sexual assaults

By AFP
September 10, 2024
Seen through a police vehicle window, Finnish-Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard leaves a Toronto courthouse in Toronto on November 12, 2023. — AFP

OTTAWA: Peter Nygard, the founder of one of Canada´s largest clothing brands, was sentenced on Monday to 11 years in prison for four counts of sexual assault of women and a girl in Toronto.

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He could be released in about six and a half years with credit for time spent in pre-trial custody, or sooner if he is granted parole. Nygard, 83, is “a Canadian success story gone very wrong,” Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Goldstein said in handing down the sentence.

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