{"id":612848,"date":"2026-04-18T17:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/612848\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T17:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:54:15","slug":"quebec-court-of-appeal-overturns-sexual-assault-verdict-for-montreal-skating-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/612848\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec\u00a0Court of Appeal overturns sexual assault verdict for Montreal skating coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec\u2019s Court of Appeal overturned a guilty verdict against a renowned skating coach accused of sexual assault and gross indecency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Richard Gauthier was found guilty of assaulting a young athlete in the 1980s and sentenced to 12 months in jail in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gauthier\u2019s lawyers argued the verdict should be overturned in accordance with rules prohibiting multiple convictions for the same incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also sought appeal against the 12-month sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Court of Appeal Judge Patrick Healy overturned both charges and the sentence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his judgment, Healy said there were many omissions and contradictions in the complainant\u2019s testimony and that the burden of proof was not met.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quebec\u2019s Court of Appeal overturned a guilty verdict against a renowned skating coach accused of sexual assault and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-612848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}