Overview

• Iain Aspenlieder admitted to one count of mischief for defacing the 2017 National Holocaust Monument with red paint and the words “FEED ME.”
• Surveillance footage captured him arriving by bicycle just before 3 a.m. on June 9 to throw paint on the monument, and he was arrested on June 27 wearing paint-stained clothing.
• Remaining charges of mischief exceeding $5,000 and harassment are set to be dropped at his fall sentencing hearing.
• Prosecutors are expected to seek a penitentiary term under the wartime memorial mischief law, while his defence will argue that time spent in custody amounts to sufficient punishment.
• Aspenlieder has been administratively suspended by the Law Society of Ontario and dismissed by the City of Ottawa, where he earned over $148,000 annually.