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Last year’s Supreme Court ruling in R. v. Jordan said that all cases must be heard within 30 months of charges being laid. Delays that go beyond that, the high court said, violate an accused person’s constitutional right to be tried within a reasonable time, but the court also made special allowances for serious and complex cases launched before the Jordan decision.

Brahaney showed no emotion Thursday as Ontario Court Justice Hugh Fraser delivered his decision. The judge found her guilty on charges of robbery, forcible confinement, kidnapping, extortion and assault causing bodily harm.

The 17-day trial had started with another accused, Jake Hopwood, 28, also before the court, but his lawyer was forced to withdraw from the case during testimony. Hopwood will be tried at a later date.

According to evidence heard at trial, the 25-year-old Ottawa man was lured into a meeting near his apartment on Sept. 4, 2014. He thought he would be hooking up with a woman, Tracy, whom he had befriended on Facebook that summer.

Instead, Brahaney met him and brought him back to his apartment building where she was joined by two men. They entered the victim’s apartment, tied him to a bed and looted everything from his coin collection to his TV to his vacuum cleaner.

They shoved him into the backseat of a car, and forced him to call his father to make a large ransom demand. The kidnappers threatened to poison him and kill his cats.

The kidnappers then took their victim to a Cumberland home where he was locked up in a dog cage before being bundled into a car bound for Toronto. In a wooded area near Ganonoque, the blindfolded and gagged victim was taken into the woods, beaten, choked and left for dead.