Saskatchewan Crown prosecutors have decided not to appeal a Manitoba judge’s decision to stay the charges in convicted sex offender Peter Nygard’s Winnipeg sexual assault case last month.

In a decision issued Oct. 8, provincial court Judge Mary Kate Harvie ruled the disgraced former fashion mogul’s right to a fair trial had been breached after old evidence in the case was lost.

Nygard, 84, had been set to stand trial in December on charges he sexually assaulted and forcibly confined a woman, who was then 20, in 1993 at his former corporate headquarters in Winnipeg.

The case was being handled by Crown prosecutors from Saskatchewan, after former attorney general Kelvin Goertzen sought an out-of-province review from the that province’s public prosecutions service.

Goertzen made the reques

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