Stanley Cup rioter Camille Cacnio testified Monday that a Vancouver police officer lied at her trial and that she received poor medical care when she was arrested for breaching sentencing conditions.
Cacnio, 24, a UBC student and Burnet secondary grad, was given a suspended sentence in September 2012 for looting two pairs of pants during the 2011 Stanley Cup riot, and had been ordered to abide by an overnight curfew for the first year of her sentence.
Shortly after the riot Cacnio was diagnosed with conditions of depression and anxiety, court heard.
Before Cacnio took the stand Monday, her lawyer, Jason Tarnow, said his clients life fell apart the morning after the riot."
"In my head, I have a lot of suicidal thoughts," Cacnio told Tarnow. "All I can think about is life and death ... a number of times I have hurt myself."
Attempting to explain why she broke her curfew on the night of Jan. 5, 2013, Cacnio said she had a sudden anxiety attack while dining out with her boyfriend that night.
Cacnio said she decided it would be best to drive to her cousin's house in Burnaby to get medication she had left there.
When she was pulled over at a Vancouver police roadside check in the 900-block Powell Street, she lied several times to an officer about her drinking at dinner, court heard. She was issued a roadside test and blew .009, well below the legal limit of .08.
Const. Barry Selver then ran her name on a police computer and arrested her for the curfew breach.
Selver has testified that Cacnio was swearing at her boyfriend from the back seat of Selver's cruiser. On Monday, Cacnio claimed she was telling her boyfriend to leave his phone on, and that she loved him.
"The police officer lied completely during court ... 100 per cent," Cacnio said Monday.
The Crown attempted to discredit Cacnio's claims that she did not receive proper medical attention in jail, and that she was in grave danger at the time of the probation breach and in following days.
Cacnio, who lived in Richmond until recently, was the first female Stanley Cup rioter to be sentenced.
She was spared jail time after the sentencing judge felt she had suffered enough at the hands of social media.
With a file from Richmond News
