Accused serial rapist Paul Batchelor, arrested this week in Ottawa, allegedly raped three women while he was out on bail awaiting trial for two other, unrelated sex assault cases.
Those cases ended in acquittals in June, stunning prosecutors, police, and many more on social media. After he walked on the charges, and his story was reported by this newspaper, numerous women came forward to police. In total, he now faces sex assault charges related to nine different women, in both Ottawa and Gatineau.
In acquitting him, Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Beaudoin accepted Batchelor’s evidence that he had consent in both cases, a claim that differed wildly from the stories the women told at trial. They detailed horrific accounts of sexual assault in 2015 at Batchelor’s Sandy Hill apartment, near the University of Ottawa, where he studied economics at the time.
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