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The trial of Romana Didulo, the self-proclaimed “Queen of Canada,” is over before it began.
At Swift Current Provincial Court on Wednesday morning, Judge Alan Jacobson told a touring group of high school law students that the charges against Didulo had been stayed.
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Didulo was charged with failing to comply with conditions of an undertaking and intimidation of justice system participants related to her time in Richmound, where she and a group of followers resided at a former school.
Didulo’s preliminary inquiry was due to begin on April 13. She was due to appear in court on Wednesday, but her name is no longer on the docket.
Three other members of Didulo’s Kingdom of Canada group, 37-year-old Melany Rinker, 63-year-old Nancy Jancke, and 72-year-old Lise Beauchamp, had charges of obstruction of a peace officer stayed recently.
Ricky Manz, the owner of the former Richmound School which the group occupied for two years, had his matters adjourned to April 8.
All the chargers came after an RCMP raid on the former school on September 3. The Saskatchewan Health Authority subsequently declared the property uninhabitable.
Swift Current Online has reached out to the Crown for more information on the decision to stay the charges against Didulo.
