A Manitoba judge has stayed all sexual assault charges against former fashion executive Peter Nygard after ruling that police failed to preserve key evidence from the original investigation, violating his right to a fair trial. Provincial court Judge Mary Kate Harvie delivered her decision Wednesday in a Winnipeg courtroom, finding that Winnipeg police failed to retain records from 1993 interviews connected to the allegations. Harvie ruled that the missing documentation made it impossible for Nygard to properly defend himself against the charges. The case involved allegations that Nygard sexually assaulted a woman at his Winnipeg warehouse in November 1993. The complainant, whose identity is protected under a publication ban, first spoke to police that year and was later interviewed by

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