Defendant sinks shot at release on conditions
Crown seeks to bar John Patrick Doyon, 39, from contact with domestic partner he’s alleged to have assaulted, but accused insists he’s “not gonna stop loving that woman”
Despite a prosecutor’s agreement to his release on strict conditions, a Fredericton man’s unruly and vulgar behaviour during his bail hearing scuttled his chances at release Thursday.
John Patrick Doyon, 39, appeared in Fredericton provincial court by video conference from the Saint John Regional Correctional Centre on Thursday afternoon for a bail hearing.
He faces charges of assaulting Carol Stymiest and threatening her June 20, and assaulting her again Aug. 9 and thereby breaching an undertaking to have no contact with her.
Doyon is also accused of uttering threats to Brian Barry and causing a disturbance at Shoppers Drug Mart on Prospect Street. Those counts date back to February.
They were before the court Thursday because the Crown had applied to revoke his release order on those charges as well.
It took a while for Doyon’s bail hearing to get underway Thursday, as there were repeated attempts to negotiate his release subject to conditions, with duty counsel Gerald Pugh taking several breaks to speak with his client privately about the restrictions being sought by prosecutor Karen Lee.
Ultimately, Doyon didn’t accept some of those terms, so the hearing began.
As it did, though, Doyon kept interjecting and talking over Judge Anne Dugas-Horsman and Lee.
The judge warned him she’d mute his microphone so the proceedings could continue in an orderly fashion, and when Doyon persisted in interrupting, she did so.
The evidence presented at Thursday’s hearing is subject to a court-ordered ban on publication until the case concludes.
After Lee presented the Crown’s case on the bail hearing, she reiterated she was willing to consent to Doyon’s release, provided he wears an ankle bracelet monitoring device, that he stay away from the 12 Neighbours tiny-home development on the city’s northside where the complainant resides, and that he have no contact with her, directly or indirectly.
Doyon insisted he had to return to 12 Neighbours to retrieve his belongings, and for him, having no contact with Stymiest was a non-starter.
“That’s gonna be a problem with her being pregnant with my son,” he said.
“But I’m not gonna stop loving that woman.”
“I revoke my offer,” Lee said.
“You’re making your life more difficult than it needs to be,” Dugas-Horsman told Doyon.
“Fine, fuck you all,” the defendant said.
Fed up with his profanity and attitude, the judge halted the bail hearing and adjourned it to Friday afternoon.
“I’m not going to be insulted by you,” she told the defendant.
Doyon was belligerent and insistent on being released, both Thursday and during his initial court appearance Wednesday.
During the proceedings Wednesday, he said he had to be released because he had a hip-replacement surgery set for the following morning and couldn’t miss the procedure.
But when the Crown objected to his release, Dugas-Horsman said she had no choice but to remand him pending a bail hearing.
During his video appearance Thursday, Doyon was using a walker, the kind with wheels and a seat in the middle, and one of his legs appeared injured or disabled in some way.
Don MacPherson can be contacted at ftonindependent@gmail.com.