Horst Schirmer, serving a six-year prison sentence for drug trafficking, had his conviction overturned due to misconduct by a former Victoria police officer, Robb Ferris, who was a key witness at his trial.
A man serving a six-year prison sentence for drug trafficking has had his conviction overturned due to the involvement of a former Victoria police officer in the case.
Ferris resigned from VicPD before he could be fired as a result of 19 substantiated counts of misconduct against him in 2021, the department said in February. That’s when news broke that charges had been stayed against three men once considered the top of the fentanyl-trafficking pyramid in B.C. because of Ferris’s involvement in the cases.
Ferris was arrested in June 2020 after the RCMP investigation found his actions “inconsistent with his duties as a police officer,” such as providing sensitive information to suspects of police investigations, VicPD said. Justice William Ehrcke said in his 2019 judgment he was satisfied that Schirmer’s possession of one of two keys that could open the safe established he had the necessary control of the safe’s contents to establish possession of the drugs.
Drug Trafficking Police Misconduct Conviction Overturned Robb Ferris Horst Schirmer
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