‘Predator’ declared dangerous offender
www.abbynews.com By DAN FERGUSON Black Press
Dec 30 2006

A self-described “predator” who attacked women in the Lower Mainland, including Abbotsford, has been designated a dangerous offender.

Just two months after Charlie Jamieson completed a seven-month “Intensive Sexual Offender Treatment Program” in prison, he attacked a 19-year-old Surrey video store clerk who was working alone. He choked her until she passed out, then sexually assaulted her after she regained consciousness.

She was one of five women in Surrey, Abbotsford, Vancouver and Mission who were victimized by Jamieson in August and September of 2003 after he walked away from an East Vancouver halfway house.

He was recaptured in Kamloops one day after the last attack and pleaded guilty to 13 criminal charges.

At the time, Jamieson had been rated a moderate to medium-low risk to re-offend by two doctors who described him as “a generally motivated and active participant in both group and individual therapy sessions . . .”

Now, Jamieson, 30, has been declared a dangerous offender, a designation that keeps him in jail indefinitely with no parole.

The category is reserved for habitual offenders who pose such a danger to public safety that they cannot safely be released from jail, even under strict supervision.

In making the order, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Bennett said previous attempts to reform Jamieson have been a “catastrophic failure.

“Mr. Jamieson’s conduct has only gotten worse over time and with treatment,” Bennett said in her written reasons for judgment.

Jamieson was one of five children born to an alcoholic mother on the Six Nations reserve in Ontario.

At age three, the judgment notes, he was sent to live with a “very abusive” and “violent” uncle, eventually ending up in foster care at the age of six.

Jamieson has a criminal record dating back to the age of 12, including prior convictions in 1993, 1994 and 1995 for sexual assaults involving violence and the use of weapons.

Shortly before his dangerous offender hearing, Jamieson told a psychologist that he considers himself a “retired predator” and would not fight the designation because “he feels he has made enough victims in his life and that he deserves whatever he gets.”

According to court documents, the victims of Jamieson’s 2003 rampage all suffered long-lasting physical and emotional harm.

The Surrey clerk has nightmares and is afraid to work in places where she is the only employee.

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