Mountie says he drank for comfort after fatal crash An off-duty RCMP officer accused of obstructing justice in a fatal motorcycle accident says he downed two shots of vodka immediately afterwards to comfort himself, not to thwart the investigation.

Cpl. Monty Robinson, 41, said Tuesday that he drove his children home from the crash site in
October 2008, got them settled upstairs and then drank the alcohol.

The Mountie told his B.C. Supreme Court trial that he didn’t know what he was thinking at the time, but went behind his bar to get what had given him comfort in the past.

Robinson, who showed little expression, said he wasn’t concerned about being charged if he were stopped for impaired driving even though he’d had five beers at a Halloween party he’d attended with his kids.

Crown lawyer Kris Pechet has accused Robinson of lying to police and minimizing the amount of liquor he consumed before the crash that killed 21-year-old Orion Hutchinson at a Delta intersection.

Robinson said that despite having five beers over four hours up until about a half hour before leaving the party, he didn’t intentionally mislead the officers who arrived at the crash scene.

Under earlier questioning by his lawyer, Robinson said he didn’t know why he went home and consumed alcohol after the crash.