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No Retrial For P.E.I. Businessman Charged With Sex Assault Of N.S. Girl, 14

The Canadian Press, 10 May, 2016 11:45 AM

HALIFAX — A Prince Edward Island businessman whose conviction of sexually assaulting a teenaged girl in the Halifax area more than 20 years ago was overturned will not face a second trial in Nova Scotia.

Stephen Nicholas Taweel of Charlottetown was found guilty in February 2014 of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in 1991 and was sentenced to 28 months in prison.

Last November, a Nova Scotia Court of Appeal ruled the trial judge inappropriately used accounts from a series of alleged incidents in P.E.I. to convict Taweel and ordered a new trial.

The Crown did not present evidence in Nova Scotia Supreme Court Tuesday, putting an end to the case.

Taweel was charged for an alleged incident involving the complainant in Dartmouth, N.S.

During his 2013 trial, Taweel denied touching the girl in Dartmouth, testifying that they did engage in consensual sexual activity soon after they first met in P.E.I. earlier that year.

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