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TERRACE, B.C. — A Portuguese man has been fined $1 by a British Columbia court and ordered to donate $5,000 to a wildlife trust for hitting a swimming deer on the head off the province’s northwest coast.

Rodolfo Lopes, previously misidentified in court documents as Martins-Lopes, pleaded guilty in Terrace provincial court on Wednesday to one count of harassing wildlife with a motor vehicle.

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The Crown stayed a Criminal Code charge of causing unnecessary pain and suffering to an animal.

Judge Terence Wright ordered Lopes to donate the $5,000, money he paid in bail, to the Heritage Conservation Trust Fund and also prohibited him from approaching wildlife for the next two years.

The money will be allocated to conservation efforts in the Kitimat region.

Lopes did not return from Portugal for the hearing and was represented in court by Vancouver lawyer Don Sorochan.

Crown counsel Corinne Baerg said Lopes was a supervisor for one of the subcontractors working on the multibillion-dollar modernization of Rio Tinto’s smelter in Kitimat and he hired a fishing guide to celebrate the end of the project and his planned wedding.