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Fagan said the general attitude on police forces makes such conduct very uncommon.

“It’s rare for a peace officer to blow the whistle on another peace officer involved in wrongdoing,” Fagan said.

“They need to be encouraged.”

Fagan said if not for the fact Braile was convicted of a bribery charge in connection with the case, he would have been seeking a conditional discharge that would have eventually cleared his client of any criminal record.

Because the maximum punishment for bribery exceeds 10 years, discharges aren’t available.

“I am seeking . . . a non-custodial sentence, no jail, not a day,” Fagan said at the outset of his sentencing submissions.

Fagan said that while Boyd conceded Braile showed extreme remorse for his conduct in the stalking of Taylor, she failed to take into account how important he was in ending it.

“The Crown . . . seems to have missed the mark in terms of their assessment of the role played by Tony Braile,” the lawyer said.

Boyd said Braile’s conduct would normally warrant a four- to 4 1/2-year prison term, but that should be reduced by 18 months because of the mitigating factors related to him.

She earlier said Mahoney should sentence Bryan Morton to four years and has yet to make sentencing submissions against Bradford McNish.

“The harassment by Mr. Braile against Ms. Taylor, in the Crown’s submission, sir, is at the more significant end of the spectrum,” Boyd said in seeking a prison term.

“There is ample evidence before this court that it involved the use of police officers as well as police resources.”

She said Braile, who was under suspension at the time for an unrelated matter, recruited Morton to provide information from police databases to assist in the stalking campaign.

KMartin@postmedia.com

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