B.C. judge rejects Crown’s psych request in kidnapping case

Vancouver — A B.C. Supreme Court judge has rejected the Crown’s request for a psychiatric assessment of a French woman convicted of abducting her two kids.

Justice Marvyn Koenigsberg says there is no evidence to justify such an exam, and calls it a “profound invasion of a person’s privacy.”

Prosecutors wanted the assessment before sentencing to determine whether Nathalie Gettliffe posed a risk of kidnapping the children again.

She took her two children to France from Canada in 2001, triggering a five-year legal fight by the Vancouver father, Scott Grant, to bring them home.

The defence argued that irrational acts do not mean a person is mentally ill.

A date for a sentencing hearing has not been determined.

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