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Vancouver Island woman sentenced for coughing in face of a grocery store clerk

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 26 Jul, 2023 03:46 PM
  • Vancouver Island woman sentenced for coughing in face of a grocery store clerk

A Vancouver Island woman has been sentenced to 18 months of probation for coughing in the face of a grocery store clerk on purpose in the earliest days of the pandemic.

The woman was found guilty in April of assaulting the employee and causing a disturbance at the Save-On-Foods in Campbell River in April 2020.

Witnesses testified that the woman refused to follow the store's COVID-19 policies and then refused to leave the store when asked to.

The judge referred to the woman's tirade as - quote - "the height of selfishness and self-entitlement." 

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