Accused predator disputes DNA link to Ontario crime scenes as 1990s assault trial continues: CBC

Victims described similar attacks

Two boys, aged eight and 10, and a 15-year-old girl told police they were lured into wooded areas, tied up and raped by a stranger. The attacks took place from 1992 to 1995, and all three said the assailant forced them to drink his urine.

The Crown and defence agreed that the attacks occurred as the children described in police interviews at the time. The children were not required to testify at trial.

Locations and timing examined

The first boy was assaulted at Kitchener’s Idlewood Park in August 1992. Another attack occurred at Norton Place Park in Brampton in September 1994, and the girl was assaulted at Wildwood Park in Oakville in August 1995. Prosecutor MacKenzie said Neil was unemployed during the first two attacks. At the time of the Oakville assault, she said, he delivered phone books and had a “very loose schedule.”

Past records and later arrest

Neil testified that he developed a urine-drinking “fetish” around 2012, adding that he believed it was common. He was arrested in 2024 and had been dividing his time between a Toronto condo and a house in Victoria; police searched both locations after detaining him.

Neil said he was 19 when police detained him and another man in Toronto for a drinking offence for “two, three hours, tops.” He said they were not charged and officers did not take his fingerprints. The report says it appears likely police would not have had his DNA or fingerprints in their database, or his name among suspects, at the time of the assaults.