There were more victories in court for Kurt Churchill last week, leaving him with more freedom, more money and still no criminal record.

Since 2014, Churchill has been accused of murder, cocaine trafficking, sexual assault and threatening police.

The drug charges were thrown out in 2018 due to trial delays based on so-called Jordan timelines.

A year later, he was charged with threatening RNC in downtown St. John’s, and eventually got a conditional discharge.

A year after that, in July of 2020, an early-morning shooting on Craigmillar Avenue would leave 47-year old Jamie Coady dead and Churchill charged with second-degree murder.

But that, too, was thrown out because of trial delays, although the provincial Crown is appealing that decision.

Coady had beaten his own drug charges by the same method in a separate police sting.

Then last week the federal Crown conceded it can’t prove that nearly half a million dollars, seized from Churchill’s house during the murder investigation, was drug money, so he’s getting it all back.

Then there’s the incident in a Toronto hotel last summer, where Churchill was charged with sexual assault, threatening and assaulting police, and breach of court orders.

In an email to VOCM, local lawyer Robby Ash confirmed the sexual assault charge was withdrawn last week, while a resolution for the other charges is still up in the air.

It’s all too much for Eileen Joyce, sister of Jamie Coady, who was shot dead five years ago last week.

“Piece by piece he walks away again and again and again. Our brother’s life mattered, our pain is real, and we refuse to be silent. It’s not right.”