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Authors: Robyn Doolittle
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reporters later that day: “I can take care of myself. Pretty well told him that.… The whole thing was overpretty quickly.” Doug Jr. told the CBC he didn’t really know MacIntyre very well. He urged his brother to hire a security detail. Kathy didn’t answer her phone that day, but her voice mail greeting still included Scott’s name as well as those of her two children. Neighbours said the on-again-off-again couple had spent Christmas together.
But now, to the family’s relief, according to sources, it looked like the relationship was finally done for good.
On January 27, 2012, jail security found a letter written by Scott to Kathy: “You and your family have one chance to leave me the fuck alone and stop this shit! Or I am going to start a shitstorm.… You and your family think I should play nice! Fuck you.”
While in prison, Scott was “viciously attacked and severely beaten,” court transcripts show. It was a case of “jailhouse justice,” the judge said, likely related to Scott’s relationship with the mayor of Toronto. His teeth were knocked out and he suffered a “catastrophic” injury to his right leg.
Both Rob and Kathy Ford gave victim impact statements. Both said that they weren’t worried MacIntyre would try to hurt them and that they hoped he would avoid prison time. Justice Paul French found this to be a significant mitigating factor. The Crown attorney and Scott’s defence lawyer agreed on the facts of the case.
Scott was sentenced to five additional months in jail, three years’ probation, regular drug tests, and a ban on owning weapons. He was also told to stay five hundred metres away from Rob Ford’s home and workplace. Kathy had asked that the court allow her to continue to communicate with Scott to help him with rehab, but Scott’s lawyer noted that Kathy Ford “hasher own issues. I think that her issues in combination with Mr. MacIntyre’s issues are simply a prescription for disaster.” The judge agreed. Scott was banned from having any association or communication with Kathy.
Scott MacIntyre was released that fall. In October 2012, he posted on his Facebook page, “I learned a VERY valuable lesson back in January! No matter if you are 100% innocent and have broken NO LAWS you can still be put in JAIL for daring to challenge people who are CONNECTED with the POLITICAL MACHINE!!!!!!” The status update is no longer visible.
I made various attempts to speak to Scott MacIntyre before finally connecting with him through Facebook. (His son, Chris, confirms that Scott communicates primarily through the site.) On July 17, 2013, I wrote Scott a message asking if he would discuss the day he walked into the mayor’s home asking for money.
He wrote back two days later. “The Fords as a whole family treated me like one of their own and for the things that I did to them they were more than fair and it would be remiss for me to say any different.”
Later he added, “I have nothing to say. And I take full responsibility for my actions. And what I did by going to my ex-brother-in-law’s and creating a scene was just stupid and irresponsible. Rob did not deserve the disrespect I caused and I paid my debt to society and have put this all behind me and wish you and all other media would do the same. Why don’t you do a story on what a great job Rob has done as Mayor of this City. And the money he has saved the tax payer!!!”
IT MUST HAVE BEEN some relief to the Ford family that Doug Sr. did not witness these sordid dramas. Doug Ford Sr. died on September 22, 2006, at the age of seventy-three—just weeks after his fiftieth wedding anniversary. He had been diagnosed with colon cancer on Canada Day, July 1, and deteriorated quickly. In his will, Doug Sr. made his wife and three sons equal trustees to the Ford estate. To Kathy, he left a million-dollar trust fund, which she could access with permission from her brothers and mother. The money was to be used to ensure her
But now, to the family’s relief, according to sources, it looked like the relationship was finally done for good.
On January 27, 2012, jail security found a letter written by Scott to Kathy: “You and your family have one chance to leave me the fuck alone and stop this shit! Or I am going to start a shitstorm.… You and your family think I should play nice! Fuck you.”
While in prison, Scott was “viciously attacked and severely beaten,” court transcripts show. It was a case of “jailhouse justice,” the judge said, likely related to Scott’s relationship with the mayor of Toronto. His teeth were knocked out and he suffered a “catastrophic” injury to his right leg.
Both Rob and Kathy Ford gave victim impact statements. Both said that they weren’t worried MacIntyre would try to hurt them and that they hoped he would avoid prison time. Justice Paul French found this to be a significant mitigating factor. The Crown attorney and Scott’s defence lawyer agreed on the facts of the case.
Scott was sentenced to five additional months in jail, three years’ probation, regular drug tests, and a ban on owning weapons. He was also told to stay five hundred metres away from Rob Ford’s home and workplace. Kathy had asked that the court allow her to continue to communicate with Scott to help him with rehab, but Scott’s lawyer noted that Kathy Ford “hasher own issues. I think that her issues in combination with Mr. MacIntyre’s issues are simply a prescription for disaster.” The judge agreed. Scott was banned from having any association or communication with Kathy.
Scott MacIntyre was released that fall. In October 2012, he posted on his Facebook page, “I learned a VERY valuable lesson back in January! No matter if you are 100% innocent and have broken NO LAWS you can still be put in JAIL for daring to challenge people who are CONNECTED with the POLITICAL MACHINE!!!!!!” The status update is no longer visible.
I made various attempts to speak to Scott MacIntyre before finally connecting with him through Facebook. (His son, Chris, confirms that Scott communicates primarily through the site.) On July 17, 2013, I wrote Scott a message asking if he would discuss the day he walked into the mayor’s home asking for money.
He wrote back two days later. “The Fords as a whole family treated me like one of their own and for the things that I did to them they were more than fair and it would be remiss for me to say any different.”
Later he added, “I have nothing to say. And I take full responsibility for my actions. And what I did by going to my ex-brother-in-law’s and creating a scene was just stupid and irresponsible. Rob did not deserve the disrespect I caused and I paid my debt to society and have put this all behind me and wish you and all other media would do the same. Why don’t you do a story on what a great job Rob has done as Mayor of this City. And the money he has saved the tax payer!!!”
IT MUST HAVE BEEN some relief to the Ford family that Doug Sr. did not witness these sordid dramas. Doug Ford Sr. died on September 22, 2006, at the age of seventy-three—just weeks after his fiftieth wedding anniversary. He had been diagnosed with colon cancer on Canada Day, July 1, and deteriorated quickly. In his will, Doug Sr. made his wife and three sons equal trustees to the Ford estate. To Kathy, he left a million-dollar trust fund, which she could access with permission from her brothers and mother. The money was to be used to ensure her
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