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Benjamin Monty Robinson and Robert Dziekanski

Vancouver Airport: Robinson, a former Mountie who was the senior officer in charge the night Robert Dziekanski was jolted with a Taser and died, has been given a two-year jail term for lying to an inquiry into the death, according to Brandon Sun. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward Enlarge Image Robert Dziekanski holds a small table at the Vancouver Airport before he was tasered by police in this image from video. Benjamin "Monty" Robinson is shown arriving at the Braidwood inquiry in Vancouver Monday, March 23, 2009. VANCOUVER - The lies a former Mountie told a public inquiry damaged the reputation of the RCMP and undermined confidence in the once-trusted institution, a B.C. Supreme Court judge said Friday. Late Friday, his lawyer David Crossin said in an email that an appeal of the conviction has been filed, citing a number of errors by the trial judge. Justice Nathan Smith sentenced former corporal Benjamin "Monty" Robinson to two years less a day, one year of probation and 240 hours of community service for lying to the inquiry into the death of Robert Dziekanski. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.