Release of your personal information by the BC Prosecution Service (Crown Counsel) [Patrick Fox; Stephanie Clogg; Nikki Sharma; and Yvette Brend (CBC News)]

Dear Miss Clogg:

I am writing to inform you that on or about 2021-11-10 I received a packet of disclosure material from the BC Prosecution Service (BCPS) (also known as the Crown Counsel), relating to their case against me. Included in that packet, however, were a couple of additional pages containing photographs and information pertaining to another, completely unrelated case, identifying you as the victim/complainant and including your contact information.

It would appear the additional pages were added to my disclosure material by VPD Detective KYLE DENT, as he is the Lead Detective on both cases. However, at my trial on 2022-02-23, when I cross-examined Dent on it, he claimed the error was on the part of Detective NANCY YINGLING in the Digital Forensics Unit (DFU) - but that would seem very unlikely since there is nothing digital about the evidence that was erroneously added to my disclosure and, therefore, there is no reason those pages would have been with the DFU. The documents were then forwarded to the BCPS to be "vetted" before being disclosed to me. The material would have been handled and/or processed by multiple parties within the BCPS, but ultimately it would have been the prosecutor assigned to my case, CHRIS JOHNSON, who would have been responsible for deciding what information to remove or redact before forwarding it to me. And somehow not a single person in the VPD or the BCPS noticed the presence of additional pages from a completely unrelated case, containing the identity and contact information of the victim/complainant in that unrelated case.

All of that disclosure material, including the pages which were erroneously released by the BCPS, was subsequently published on the internet.

It has now been over a year since the BCPS provided me your information and it is my understanding that they have made no attempt to inform you of their error, or that your information has been erroneously disclosed by them and published on the internet as a result of that erroneous disclosure. In fact, it seems they have, apparently, made deliberate efforts to try to conceal their misconduct (including "losing" and destroying evidence). It is for that reason I am writing you - to make sure you are aware of the gross ineptitude, negligence and misconduct on the part of the BCPS in handling and protecting your personal information, and their efforts to try to cover it up, thereby potentially putting you at risk.