A judge has stayed all charges in the sexual assault case against disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard in Winnipeg.

The judge found that police failing to retain records related to allegations stemming from the 1990s violated his right to a fair trial.

Nygard appeared via video link in a Winnipeg courtroom, where provincial court Judge Mary Kate Harvie read her decision Wednesday following arguments in the case in September.

The complainant in the case alleged Nygard sexually assaulted her at his Winnipeg warehouse in 1993. Nygard’s trial on those allegations had been scheduled to happen in December.

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