A bad decision by a football fan on Grey Cup weekend has landed him in jail for 30 days.
Douglas Carter was serving a conditional sentence in the community for a breach of trust conviction. However, he was arrested and was in court Wednesday facing a 30-day suspension of that order over a breach of conditions.
The reason: Carter went to Regina to attend the Grey Cup game won by the Saskatchewan Roughriders 45-23 over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats Sunday.
As a result, he did not make it back in time to meet his curfew condition, which runs between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. daily.
The accused admitted the breach. Crown prosecutor Mitch Piche called for and was granted a 30-day suspension of the CSO in provincial court. Carter will now serve that time in custody at Battlefords Community Correctional Centre.
In court Wednesday, Carter called it a "rude awakening" and admitted he did not take the conditional sentence order "as serious as I should have."
In imposing sentence Judge David Kaiser noted Carter had made the choice to attend the game.
"The public has got to know the conditional sentence means something," Kaiser said.
