Charges not laid in Jack Layton massage parlour leak

Charges will not be laid in a case concerning a leak about a 1996 incident involving Jack Layton. In the incident, Toronto police officers raided a suspected bawdy house posing as a massage parlour, and found Layton inside. Layton was not arrested nor charged, claiming that he wasn’t aware that it was a bawdy house.

The leak occurred after a retired officer revealed notebooks containing information about the case to a private detective. The detective was hunting for information on Layton a week before the election.

Ontario Provincial Police requested that the notebooks be handed over to the Toronto Police Service. The case has led the Toronto Police to review policies concerning retired officers keeping police notebooks which are police property.