CANADIAN fashion mogul Peter Nygard’s three-month prison sentence for publishing sensitive emails stolen from a local advocacy group has been stayed out of fairness to allow him to appeal his conviction. Court of Appeal Justice Roy Jones, in a written ruling, said to “remove any risk of unfairness”, he would stay Nygard’s 90-day sentence for breaching an injunction preventing him from publishing private correspondence that were stolen from Save the Bays. Justice Jones granted the stay primarily because if Nygard ends up winning his appeal, the 90 days he would have spent in prison “cannot be undone” and the sentence would in turn render his appeal pointless. However, Justice Jones said his decision to stay the custodial sentence was because Nygard has since “partially” purged his contempt by paying a $150,000 fine as well as the $15,000 penalty for late payment.

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