VANCOUVER - Police say they've completed their investigation and recommended impaired and dangerous driving charges against a Mountie who was involved in the death of Robert Dziekanski following a fatal accident last fall.
Cpl. Benjamin Monty Robinson was off-duty in October 2008 when a Jeep collided with a motorcycle driven by Orion Hutchinson, 21, on a suburban Vancouver roadway.
Hutchinson, who had recently completed a trades program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and was days away from a new job, was thrown from the motorcycle and died.
Robinson was arrested at the scene.
Delta police announced Tuesday, nearly eight months later, that they have finally forwarded their report to the Crown.
"The Delta police are now awaiting charge approval on the recommended charges against the off-duty RCMP officer, Monty Robinson, of impaired driving causing death and dangerous driving causing death," Const. Sharlene Brooks said in a media release.
Neil MacKenzie, a spokesman for the Criminal Justice Branch, said the Crown's review of the report should be completed within the next month.
RCMP spokeswoman Cst. Annie Linteau said Robinson was suspended with pay last year and remains so.
Robinson was the most senior of the four RCMP officers involved in Dziekanski's death at Vancouver airport in October 2007.
He testified in March at a public inquiry that he gave the order to stun the Polish man with a Taser.
Police came under fire earlier this year after scheduled court dates were delayed and charges failed to be laid in Hutchinson's death month after month.
Delta police said they had not received all the information and reports required by the Crown to lay charges in the case.
But the motor vehicles branch did suspend Robinson's driver's licence for 90 days -- a suspension he tried unsuccessfully to appeal.
The officer argued in B.C. Supreme Court in March that a motor vehicles adjudicator didn't properly consider his statement that he left the scene of the collision, had two shots of vodka, and then returned to the scene.
