A North Vancouver man has received a suspended sentence and been put on 18 months’ probation after pleading guilty to three counts of sexual assault.
Judge Grant Sheard handed down the sentence to Vaughan Englot in Vancouver provincial court Aug. 23. The charges stem from groping incidents that happened in North Vancouver’s Central Lonsdale area and downtown Vancouver in January.
North Vancouver RCMP first warned the public on Jan. 22 after a woman came forward to report an incident that happened on Jan. 11. She had been walking in the 1700-block of Lonsdale Avenue around 6 p.m. when a suspect grabbed her from behind, put his hands between her legs and groped her, the RCMP said at the time.
In the early morning of Jan. 19, police say a man grabbed a woman’s buttocks as she walked east on the 100-block of East 15th Street. In both cases, the subject fled soon after.
The RCMP revealed later there was another incident in Vancouver’s West End on Jan. 15 for which Englot was charged.
