A musician from Inverness Co. sex assault case has been adjourned due to health issues.
A trial was set to begin Thursday, court was instead adjourned.
Police charged Gerry Deveau, 85, following a 2010 incident involving a 10-year-old girl in St. Joseph du Moine.
Deveau was sentenced to six months behind bars for failing to travel to a scheduled appointment by the most direct route in April 2018.
RCMP charged him with another sexual assault count in relation to an incident in Margaree in 1996; the complainant in the case was 17 at the time.
Deveau was scheduled to stand trial in that case in Port Hawkesbury Provincial Court Thursday; it didn’t go forward because of health issues, instead it was adjourned.
It was also adjourned in June and November.
A pre-trial is scheduled on Sept. 4 to determine if the health issues have been resolved enough to proceed with a trial, set for Sept. 10.
The Belle Cote man, known as the “Spoon Man”, was sentenced to 12 months of house arrest and 12 months of probation in March 2018; he was placed on the sex offender registry for a 10-year period.
He has played numerous stages through the years, including close to 60 years at the Broad Cove Scottish Concert.
