DANGEROUS OFFENDER NEVER TESTED FOR DRUGS

A30-year-old serial rapist on parole who attacked five Lower Mainland
women - including two from the Fraser Valley - was never tested for
drugs by his parole officer, despite the fact drug and alcohol use
was a key factor in most of his past crimes.

Robert Charles Jamieson, who was ruled a dangerous offender by B.C.
Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Bennet in December, walked away from
the Circle of Eagles halfway house in east Vancouver in August 2003.

He was arrested nine days later in a stolen car in Kamloops, but not
after Jamieson went on a violent crime spree - beating, robbing and
sexually assaulting five women in Vancouver, Surrey, Abbotsford and Mission.

An internal investigation by the Correctional Service of Canada,
obtained through the Access to Information Act by the Vancouver Sun,
shows Jamieson, who has a history of violent sexual assaults, was
never tested for drug and alcohol abuse while on parole.

In her Dec. 22 ruling, Bennett wrote that "drugs and particularly
alcohol played a significant part in almost all of Mr. Jamieson's offences."

The CSC report states "Jamieson was not required to participate in
urinalysis testing while under supervision," then later, "Urinalysis
would have been a powerful tool in the supervision of this case."

During his nine-day crime binge in August 2003, Jamieson robbed the
Love Essentials sex shop in Abbotsford and brutally attacked a
32-year-old woman working the till, at one point holding a knife to
her neck and threatening to kill her.

Less than a week later, he sexually assaulted a 17-year-old woman who
worked part-time at a medical clinic in Mission. After the assault,
Jamieson tied the woman's wrists and feet with telephone cord, stole
her bank card and promised to return to kill her if the PIN she gave
him was incorrect.

Jamieson beat up and sexually assaulted three other women before he
was captured by Kamloops RCMP.

- - with files from the Vancouver Sun