Gregory Brotherston has been charged with three counts of assault causing bodily harm to a Greater Victoria woman.
The 35-year-old youngest son of former Highlands councillors Ken and Marie Brotherston turned himself in to police on Tuesday.
The offences are alleged to have occurred on March 28 in Saanich. The charges were sworn on Sept. 22.
Brotherston’s co-accused, David Jason Hill, is charged with assaulting the same woman on the same day by threatening her with a dog.
Brotherston has also been charged with possessing marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. That offence is alleged to have occurred on March 16.
He is in custody at the Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre.
A bail hearing began Wednesday in Victoria provincial court before Judge David Pendleton. On Thursday afternoon, the hearing was adjourned to give Brotherston time to consult with another defence lawyer. A date for a new bail hearing will be set on Oct. 13.
In January 2010, Brotherston, his father, Kenneth Brotherston Sr., and his brother, Ken Brotherston Jr., were found not guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Keith Taylor of Colwood.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Janice Dillon found that Kenneth Brotherston Sr. acted in self-defence, believing that Taylor, who was high on crack cocaine, would kill him when he came at him first with a gun, then a knife, on May 30, 2008.
The judge dismissed second-degree murder charges against his sons on the basis that they were assisting their father’s self-defence.
Charges against the brothers of assault causing bodily harm to Taylor’s ex-girlfriend, Devon Daughtry — who had repeatedly jumped on their father’s back — were dismissed on the basis that they were getting her out of the way to protect their father against further assault.
In February 2014, Gregory Brotherston was acquitted of breaking into the trailer of an elderly Langford man and robbing him of his debit card and PIN in the early hours of Oct. 6, 2012.
