Tristan Xarier Traynor Vickers appears in this 2018 photo.

Image Credit: Vancouver Police Dept.

A BC man, who at the age of 14 sexually assaulted an 80-year-old woman in a revenge attack, was in a Kelowna courtroom last week, having breached a long-term court order.

On Jan. 23 Tristan Xarier Traynor Vickers, born 1993,  pleaded guilty to possessing alcohol in June 2023. He was under police surveillance at the time, who saw him drink three samples of wine at a grocery store display.

The move was a breach of a 10-year supervision order he's been under since getting out of prison in July 2018.

Drinking the wine samples didn't net him any jail time and instead the 31-year-old was given a six-month conditional sentence with many of the same conditions already covered under his supervision order, such as a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew.

Vancouver Police Department described Vickers as a high-risk sex offender, who at age 14 broke into the home of an 80-year-old woman and violently sexually assaulted her.

"The motive for this crime was revenge against the victim's son who was in an abusive relationship with your mother," the Parole Board said in a decision from last year.

In a highly unusual move, although he was only 14 years old at the time of the offence, he was tried as an adult after being found guilty of break and enter and sexual assault causing bodily harm.

He was drunk and high on cocaine at the time of the attack.

He was convicted in 2011 and spent seven and a half years in prison before being released to a halfway house in Vancouver. Following his release, the Vancouver police put out a notice warning the public about him. It appears in 2023 he made his way to the Okanagan.

After being released from prison in 2018 he was placed on a decade-long supervision order with strict conditions.

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He's under a nighttime curfew and has to report any type of relationship with a female. He's not allowed to enter a private residence without permission or own more than one cell phone. He's also prohibited from accessing pornography in any form.

However, Vickers has breached his conditions on multiple occasions.

"There have been ongoing challenges with respect to your compliance with basic supervision requirements like signing in and signing out of the community residential facility, reliably reporting your whereabouts, and making changes in your locations," the parole board said in the decision.

In October 2018, he was in a relationship with a woman that he hid from his case manager.

The following summer in July 2019, Vickers went to someone else's home and drank alcohol, and a few months later was given money to buy drugs from another offender's wife and an unknown woman.

"After being suspended for these infractions, a search of your room revealed telephone numbers for other women unknown to (your case manager) as well as a letter from a female 'pen-pal' containing descriptions of sexually explicit fantasies including rape and coercion," the decision read.

Months later, he was seen coming out of a bush with a woman and was convicted for breaching his supervision order.

"In November of 2020, you told the case management team about a relationship with a woman and you were instructed to not have contact with her. You violated this instruction. It was later learned that you had visited her in her home," the parole board said.

In 2021, he spent three months in prison for getting into a relationship and not telling his parole officer.

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A year later, while under police surveillance, he was found entering and exiting a property with three unknown women. The decision didn't say what type of business but he spent an hour there with the female manager.

"Additional items of concern, including a bag of marijuana, a THC vape, and other materials related to relationships with women were found in your room," the decision said.

Vickers spent two days in jail for this breach.

The parole board decision said Vickers was diagnosed with mental health issues when he was young and struggled in school. His father died at a young age and he led a transient life with his brother and mother.

At age nine, he was drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana and by 12 began using cocaine and dexedrine.

Last August, the parole board authorized Vickers two nights of unsupervised leave to go to his mother's funeral. He will be accompanied by family members and monitored electronically.

"You will be transported to and from the funeral location by trusted collaterals and the local police will be aware of your presence in the community," the decision said.

As is protocol, the parole board didn't say where in the Okanagan Vickers is living.

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