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“I have a copy of the abandonment in my hands right now,” said Hepner, when contacted by phone by Postmedia.

Last Nov. 22, Justice Allan Fradsham acquitted Fildebrandt of four charges of uttering threats to cause bodily harm in connection with an April 13, 2024, incident at the former politician’s Calgary home.

Fildebrandt had just arrived home from a business trip and was sitting down to dinner when he noticed teens on the other side of a hedge on his property.

In his ruling, Fradsham detailed the facts of the case.

“The accused was recovering from a previous injury and required the assistance of a cane when walking,” the Calgary Court of Justice judge said.

“He was in the view that in the past, certain of his lawn ornaments had been stolen, and he concluded, wrongly, that the complainants were either stealing, or damaging the ornaments with which he had replaced the previous stolen ones.”

Fildebrant went outside to deal with the teens, who were simply waiting for a friend to join them, using his cane to assist him.

“He was upset at the time, and at some point raised his cane in the air. I find that the accused said to the complainants: ‘I protect my property and my belongings with a gun,’” Fradsham said.

The judge said those words, expressed in frustration, “were at most, a statement that he would take protective measures in defence of his property.”

As a result he found they did not constitute a threat.

KMartin@postmedia.com

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