The man who called police on a Simcoe, Ont., neighbour after he got sprayed with a water gun — resulting in an assault charge against her — says there’s more to the story and he has the security footage to prove it.
Sheehan Rochester, 49, told CBC News he’s experienced years of racially fuelled harassment by a group of neighbours that escalated to what he alleged was an assault on Sept. 1.
Rochester is accusing Wendy Washik of intentionally spraying him, which she says was an accident.
“It was kind of to strip me of my integrity, to strip me of my dignity,” Rochester said of the incident.
“We have a right to live in our home in peace … we don’t need to be accosted where we live.”
Washik, 58, told The Canadian Press earlier this month that she was having a playful water gun fight with a child …