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Kwesi Millington and Vancouver International Airport

Robert Dziekanski: That a longer sentence than Dziekanski mother said she had hoped for. "It is some justice finally, after almost eight years," said Zofia Cisowski, who was in tears as the judge read his sentence, according to CBC. She had wanted Millington to serve at least two years. "I am so happy and I am so nervous … I could jump to the sky." Millington has been granted bail pending the appeal of his sentence. Kwesi Millington, the RCMP officer who fired a Taser the night Robert Dziekanski died at Vancouver International Airport, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for perjury and colluding with his fellow officers at an inquiry into the death. Robert Dziekanski died after being stunned multiple times with a Taser in the arrivals lounge of Vancouver International Airport. All four officers were charged with perjury following the inquiry into Dziekanski death, for testimony inquiry commissioner Thomas Braidwood called "patently unbelievable." Millington and former RCMP corporal Monty Robinson were convicted of perjury; the other officers, Const. Dziekanski was Tasered by RCMP multiple times at Vancouver airport in 2007, after four officers responded to reports of a man throwing furniture. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.