Jury to decide fate of former BC Liberal MLA’s son

The Crown prosecutor in the B.C. Supreme Court trial of Kasimir Tyabji-Sandana told a B.C. Supreme Court judge and 10-member jury in Powell River on Wednesday that he was willfully blind when he chose to have sex with an underage girl in September 2016.

“That is to say, that Mr. Tyabji-Sandana was aware that he should inquire about age, and deliberately decided not to inquire because he simply preferred not to know,” Young said. He said there is no “magic number” of reasonable steps nor is there an exhaustive list on which to rely, because it depends on the circumstances of the case.

Defence lawyer Jason Tarnow pointed to the same email as a reason to acquit his client because it was among the contradictions in the Crown’s case. He also told the jury that had she told Tyabji-Sandana her true age, then he would have stopped seeing her because she was too young. Tyabji-Sandana originally met the girl when she came to volunteer on Tyabji and then-husband Gordon Wilson’s sheep farm in January 2016. Tyabji and Wilson, the former BC Liberal leader, both testified that they assumed the girl was a senior high school student.

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