A 20-year-old Coquitlam man facing sentencing for his role in last summer's Stanley Cup riot will have to wait until Thursday to learn his fate.
That's when Vancouver Provincial Court Judge Malcolm McLean is expected to impose his sentence against Ryan Dickenson, who earlier pleaded guilty to participating in the June 15, 2011 riot and breaching his curfew on an unrelated assault charge.
Dickenson appeared in court Wednesday as Crown prosecutor Patti Tomasson showed video and still photographs of Dickenson repeatedly throwing a newspaper box at an unmarked police car, attempting to flip an unmarked police car with others and tossing a mannequin and another newspaper box into a Black and Lee tuxedo shop.
Tomasson recommended Dickenson be sentenced to a jail term between 15 and 18 months. Lawyer Eric Warren, acting on behalf of Dickenson, recommended a sentence of one year in custody, along with treatment and therapy for his client's issues with anger.
The court heard Dickenson had previous convictions for assault and concealing a weapon related to two incidents as an adult and one as a juvenile. Tomasson said the previous convictions show a pattern of behaviour in which he commits crime with others.
"Mr. Dickenson is an angry young man," Tomasson said.
Warren read a note to the court penned by Dickenson in which he said, "I'm ashamed and deeply embarrassed. I was caught up in the moment. I made some very bad decisions that day."
Dickenson, who was dressed in a prison-issued red T-shirt, loose pants and white runners, has been in jail for 69 days. He is in custody because he breached his curfew from an assault case dating back to Sept. 15, 2010.
Dickenson will be the first person to be sentenced for participating in the June 15 riot, which erupted downtown after the Vancouver Canucks lost to the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup Final.
In an earlier case, a Surrey man who was found with swimwear he stole from a downtown store during the night of the riot received an absolute discharge in Surrey Provincial Court.
The Crown estimated the overall damage caused by the riot was $3.7 million, including $2.7 million to businesses. The judge is expected to deliver his decision at 2 p.m. Thursday.
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