Canadian navy sailor jailed for violent sexual assault on B.C. military base
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A Canadian navy sailor who brutally raped a woman on a British Columbia military base has been sentenced to three years and eight months in federal prison.
Warning: This story contains a description of a violent sexual assault.
A Canadian navy sailor who brutally raped a woman on a British Columbia military base has been sentenced to three years and eight months in federal prison.
Following a five-day trial, a jury found 23-year-old Hayden Chokrev-Evans guilty of sexually assaulting, choking and suffocating a woman he met on a dating app.
The victim, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, testified that she met Chokrev-Evans on Tinder and the two began messaging each other before meeting in person in Nanaimo on Oct. 11, 2022.
They spent time at a mall and a park before the woman agreed to visit Chokrev-Evans in Victoria that weekend. The accused admitted he misled the woman into believing he was interested in a long-term relationship when all he wanted was "quick sex," B.C. Supreme Court Justice Carla Forth wrote in her sentencing decision.
The woman arrived at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt the following Saturday afternoon and visited Chokrev-Evans in his dorm room. They watched three episodes of a Netflix series about serial killer and sex offender Jeffery Dahmer before Chokrev-Evans said he was leaving to go work out at the gym.
When he returned, the woman asked him how his workout went, but he did not respond, the court heard. Instead, he grabbed her and forced her onto the floor.
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