Stanley Tippett’s dangerous offender hearing delayed
Posted July 11, 2011 6:43 am.
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A dangerous offender hearing for Stanley Tippett, the Peterborough, Ont., man convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl, was moved to Tuesday from Monday.
The hearing was delayed because of a scheduling mix-up with a Polish interpreter for some of the Crown’s witnesses, The Canadian Press reported.
Tippett, a father of five, was convicted in 2009 for the disturbing attack. On Aug. 6, 2008, he picked the child up on a Peterborough street and drove her behind a high school in Courtice, about 70 kilometres away, where he sexually assaulted the girl.
He claimed he’d offered to help the 12-year-old and was carjacked while she was in his vehicle.
He has Treacher Collins syndrome, a rare condition that causes facial and cranial deformities, which allowed several people to point him out as the attacker.
A dangerous offender designation can result in an indefinite prison sentence.
Tippett was a main suspect in the death of Toronto teen Sharmini Anandavel. The Grade 9 student was reported missing June 12, 1999, after she left her home to start a new job. Tippett had lived in the same Don Mills apartment and moved two weeks before her disappearance.
Sharmini’s remains were found in North York four months later. No one was charged.
He was also convicted of criminal harassment in 2005 for harassing a young woman in Peterborough. When the victim called police to complain about Tippett, officers searched his van and found rope, duct tape, a jack-knife, a hammer and long plastic ties.
With files from The Canadian Press
