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Destiny Douglas says she was “vindicated” when Ontario’s highest court upheld the sexual conviction Tuesday against her rapist — former Toronto Police officer Roy Preston.

The Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed Preston’s appeal of his 2018 conviction and upheld his three-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting the security guard.

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Preston and Douglas were working for the same security company and attended a barbecue and bonfire on Manitoulin Island in northern Ontario on July 31, 2015. He was 46 and her supervisor while Douglas was 19.

She testified that Preston groped her breast when they went to retrieve firewood. After 2 a.m., he entered the trailer where she was sleeping on a sofa and committed a lengthy sexual assault.

She repeatedly shouted, “No,” demanded he stop and wept. Preston never testified but his lawyer’s position was the sex was consensual.

The defence’s only witness was another security company employee, Margit Vadaszi, who testified she heard nothing. She slept in the same trailer 4.5 metres away from Douglas, separated only by a plastic curtain that didn’t touch the floor.