DRUG COP BECAME 'BANDIT': DOCTOR

Toronto Police drug cop Robert Kelly has told doctors that a "second
personality" he adopted while undercover led him into cocaine use and
addiction. In a psychiatric assessment entered into evidence yesterday at
Kelly's sentencing hearing on guilty pleas to cocaine possession, Dr. Klaus
Kuch wrote that Kelly became the "bandit" he portrayed.

"He perceived drug use as an integral part of his undercover role. It
served to establish his credibility with dealers," Kuch wrote in a
seven-page report.

While awash with grief in the late 1990s after his father's death, the
collapse of a relationship and the near-fatal wounding of North West Field
Command drug cop colleague Russ Lillie, Kelly got "hooked" on cocaine, Kuch
wrote.

SET UP BY INFORMANT

Kelly, 36, a 14-year veteran, was arrested in November 2001 after he was
set up by an informant and suspended from duty.

Less than three grams of powder cocaine was found in Kelly's car. Kelly
pleaded guilty to two counts each of cocaine possession and prosecutors
withdrew two charges of possession of cocaine for the purposes of trafficking.

Crown attorney John North told Judge Ian Cowan that Kelly should be
sentenced to three months of house arrest and three months of overnight
curfew, followed by two years of probation and 100 hours of community service.

Defence lawyer Peter Brauti is seeking a conditional discharge and
probation. Brauti said Kelly will not oppose community service, or counselling.

Toronto Police veterans who supervised Kelly and up to 20 others testified
yesterday that Kelly is an outstanding cop who worked "two of the most
dangerous areas of the city."