On May 14, 2021 retired Judge Selwyn Romilly was stopped and handcuffed by Vancouver Police while out for a morning walk along Vancouver’s seawall. The officers told Judge Romilly he matched the description of “the suspect” … the suspect was described as a 40-50-year-old dark-skinned man; Judge Romilly is in his 80s.
- 47 years earlier ….On October 12, 1974 his brother, Valmond Romilly, at the time a lawyer, was stopped on Granville Street and detained by three Vancouver city policeman – another case of “mistaken identity”
