Disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard's lawyer wants the Winnipeg sexual assault trial slated for later this year to stop before it gets started because police failed to retain records related to allegations that stem from the 1990s.

Nygard appeared via video link in a Winnipeg courtroom on Monday where his lawyer, Gerri Wiebe, filed a motion requesting a stay of proceedings.

Wiebe said Nygard has been denied the right to a fair trial on the basis that officers who interviewed the woman in the case in 1993 were unable to produce documentation from their exchanges at the time.

The woman, whose identity is protected under a publication ban, alleges Nygard sexually assaulted her at his Winnipeg warehouse apartment in November of that year.

She went on to speak with officers, including in V

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