Movie producer should receive 15 years for sex crimes: Crown

A Vancouver movie producer who committed sex offences against three women should spend 15 years behind bars, a prosecutor has argued.

In January, after a judge had rejected applications by Raymond Law, 55, to exclude evidence at his trial, the accused agreed to plea to 10 criminal counts involving the three victims.

At Law’s sentencing hearing on Monday, Crown counsel Don Montrichard read into the record an agreed statement of facts of Law’s crimes.

The prosecutor told B.C. Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Duncan that on Dec. 8, 2012, a woman who can only be identified by the initials S.K.J. due to a publication ban, went to a Yaletown lounge. She was sober when she arrived to meet her friends, but became extremely intoxicated and does not recall anything until she woke up in Law’s highrise apartment.

S.K.J. said she believed that Law, who she had never met before, had looked after her that night and had saved her from anything happening to her.

But photos seized later by police from Law ’s cellphone showed that Law had photographed her while she was in a sauna, wearing shoes that belonged to the accused. Another male also took photos of Law and the victim in the sauna.

Law had sexually assaulted her in his bedroom while S.K.J. was unconscious. He took photographs of the sex assault.

After waking, she didn’t feel well and vomited into a bucket before calling in sick to her employer and returning home to sleep it off.

About a month later, in January 2013, she met Law, who co-wrote and co-produced the 2011 movie Ecstasy, at a restaurant to review a movie script that he said he would bring with him.

Later they went to Law’s residence where Law gave her a drink containing the date-rape drug GHB. After she was rendered unconscious, he sexually assaulted her and took photos of the attack.

In August 2013, the victim met with police who showed her photos of her being sexually assaulted, the first time she was aware of the attacks.

A second victim, who can only be identified by the initials C.H.M., met Law at a party in 2009 where he introduced himself as a movie producer.

On Dec. 31, 2012, she spent a night out with Law and his roommate during which they attended a nightclub where C.H.M. became very drunk and blacked out. She did not recall returning to his apartment that night.

While she was unconscious, he sexually assaulted her in his bedroom and took photos of the attack.

The third victim, identified as C.A.R.M., met Law at a drinking establishment where the accused introduced himself as a movie producer.

They started an intimate relationship, but Law secretly recorded her while she was having consensual sex with him.

Later, after their relationship had stopped being sexual, he photographed her genitals while she was not conscious, and during a third incident, he gave her a drink with GHB for the purpose of committing sexual assault.

Alan Lai, a co-accused of Law, was convicted in May of administering a stupefying substance and sexual assault. He is to be sentenced at a later date.