The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed RNC Const. Douglas Snelgrove’s attempt to appeal his conviction for sexual assault.

It brings to an end a nearly decade-long case that saw three trials and two appeals.

The decision means Snelgrove’s bail will be revoked and he will resume serving his four-year sentence, having now exhausted all appeal options.

The Supreme Court of Canada does not give reasons for its decisions regarding leave to appeal.

The 46-year-old Snelgrove was convicted in 2021 and served some time in federal prison before his release pending appeals at the provincial and national level.

Now a registered sex offender, he has about 16 months to go before he’s eligible for parole.

As for his status with the RNC, Snelgrove has been suspended without pay since charges were first laid in 2015.

That remains the case while the matter is now dealt with by the RNC’s Public Complaints Commission.

Under the RNC Act, the Chief of Police must preside over those proceedings related to the criminal charge.

Snelgrove was on duty, in uniform, in his police car when he drove a drunk young woman home from downtown in 2014.

The married constable ended up in her apartment, where he assaulted her, with issues of consent and abuse of authority emerging at trial.

He was first acquitted, but that was overturned on appeal, leading to a second trial that ended with a judge’s mistake and no verdict.

Snelgrove was convicted after a third trial, but he appealed, arguing he was wrongly excluded from key meetings between the judge and lawyers.

That was dismissed by this province’s Court of Appeal, leaving Canada’s top court as his final option.