The disgraced former pop star is already a convicted sex offender and is currently serving a five-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting a different woman in a Toronto hotel room, also in 2016.
“There is no victim impact statement before me, but there is a woman in this community who will never forget the night,” wrote Ontario Court Justice Cidalia Faria.
The decision means Ex-Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard has started serving his five-year prison sentence. He had been out on bail pending the outcome of the appeal.
“Because the border is not a Charter-free zone, it is also not an almost-anything-goes zone,” wrote Chief Justice Michael Tulloch in a 114-page decision released Friday.
While Maahir Dosani’s death was “unspeakably tragic,” the prosecution’s case was built on the evidence of a number of lying witnesses, the judge found.