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In a decision filed Sept. 29, Golden wrote that Sayler’s evidence in his own defence during the trial was unconvincing.

“Mr. Sayler’s testimony, while highly self-serving, makes little sense and the vast majority has no air of reality. In cross-examination Mr. Sayler was extremely evasive, equivocal and avoided direct responses,” the judge wrote.

Allegations of stalking, harassment

Four women with whom he had previously had intimate relationships — which overlapped, at times, often unbeknownst to them — testified at the trial.

Court heard allegations that Sayler stalked and harassed women he was involved with, and that he enlisted a current girlfriend to drive him to an ex’s home so he could egg it on three occasions. The woman who drove him said Sayler covered the eggs in glitter glue and wrote derogatory insults on them.

He was also accused of slashing a tire on another woman’s vehicle. That woman obtained an emergency protection order against Sayler.

The woman who helped him during the egging later contacted one of the targeted women and told her what Sayler had been up to.

“She was told by him, and she believed him, when he said these women were evil and that they had wrecked his life,” Golden wrote of the woman, who gave evidence that Sayler had forged her signature on a common law declaration form, which enabled him to defraud the RCMP of relocation benefits.

Airsoft gun theft, insurance fraud

The theft charge relates to Sayler’s seizure of an airsoft gun during a search of a suspect’s truck in March 2015. The gun was recovered from a locked drawer in Sayler’s desk, along with other airsoft guns. Golden found Sayler would have known seizing the airsoft gun wasn’t lawful, because it isn’t a weapon.