The trial for a St. John’s fire captain accused of sexual assault has been delayed again.
Fifty-two-year-old Ron Pomeroy was charged late last year with sexual assault and sexual exploitation against a teenage girl.
The offences are alleged to have occurred between February and May of 2023.
The three-day trial was set to start this past June, but the Crown was granted more time to review additional evidence from police.
The trial was rescheduled for February of next year, but now that, too, has gone by the wayside.
That’s because Pomeroy’s lawyer has declared a personal conflict with his client.
Pomeroy has since retained a new lawyer who has been granted time to get up to speed on the case, with tentative trial dates now set for late April of next year.
That will be preceded in January by a defence application which seeks access to the complainant’s private and confidential records.
The girl’s father was in the courtroom this morning, expressing frustration with another delay in the case.
Pomeroy was a captain with the St. John’s Regional Fire Department when the charges were laid last December but his current employment status remains unclear.
He remains free on conditions as the case works its way toward the new trial dates.