STORY: "Mountie in Dziekanski case gets no jail time for blocking unrelated police work," by reporter Vivian Luk, published by the Canadian Press on July 27, 2012.

A disgraced former RCMP corporal who first catapulted into the public eye after Robert Dziekanski's Taser-related death in Vancouver is not getting jail time for an unrelated conviction stemming from a fatal crash. Benjamin (Monty) Robinson was sentenced to a one-year conditional term on Friday for attempting to block the police investigation of the October 2008 collision that killed a 21-year-old motorcyclist.........Robinson was driving a vehicle that struck and killed Orion Hutchinson in an intersection of the Vancouver suburb of Delta, B.C., four years ago. He was returning with his two young children from a Halloween party, where he had consumed five beers earlier in the night. After the crash, the off-duty officer left the scene to bring his two children home. While there, he gulped two shots of vodka that he later claimed was aimed at calming his nerves. Dillon found the move was actually a deliberate act to mislead the crash investigation, noting the veteran's extensive RCMP training had taught him that drinking booze afterwards could potentially mask the alcohol he drank earlier in the night. At his sentencing, Dillon said the man's conduct causes one to lose faith in the "protect and serve" police mantra, particularly when he has shown no remorse for the offence or acknowledged any guilt. The fact that Robinson fled the scene while Hutchinson lay dead at the side of the road further exacerbated the trauma and grief experienced by the young man's family, she added."