We’re in the home stretch when it comes to the legal woes facing Anthony Sayers, with prosecutors this week weighing whether to send The Unsellables’ co-host to eventual trial for alleged fraud and criminal harassment, or to drop all remaining charges.
Crown prosecutors on Monday finally received key paperwork from police officers that originally investigated Sayers for an apparent dispute he had with Toronto homeowner Doreen Boulos over renovation work his private contracting company completed in February.
That investigation led to Sayer’s arrest by Toronto police on March 12 before he was charged with four criminal counts and released on bail.
According to Sayers’ defense team, the paperwork known as disclosure in the Ontario court system is understood to include what Doreen Boulus told the police as they considered her complaint.
Sayers’ lawyers have repeatedly expressed frustration to crown prosecutors because they have not received the fruits of police investigations, as the law requires for fairness and transparency.
Instead, it has taken just over a month for key disclosure materials from police investigators to be received by the crown.
Prosecutors will now review the latest disclosure material to see if there is a reasonable prospect of conviction for Sayers should his case go to trial.
The prosecutors will specifically weigh whether the charging provisions in the criminal code stack up against what Doreen Boulos alleges transpired during her dispute with Sayers and his private contracting company.
Sayers, also known as Barrington Anthony Sayers, currently faces three charges two counts for criminal harassment and one for fraud under $5000 after an earlier extortion charge was dropped by the crown.
The urgency that attends efforts by Sayers’ defense team stems from The Unsellables from Cineflix Productions now entering a fourth season of production.
Cineflix producers in recent weeks have been quietly casting for homeowners in the Savannah and Charleston markets in the US, where it is understood they intend to shoot six episodes of The Unsellables, before moving up to the New York and New Jersey states.