A 33-year-old Langley man has been found not guilty in connection with a violent home invasion last year that saw a 56-year-old woman tied up and her home ransacked.
Derek Allenby saw charges of forcible confinement, break and enter and assault dismissed in Surrey Provincial Court on Wednesday.
Suspects came to the woman’s home on June 27, 2013.
The legal grow-op had been harvested and removed a week prior to the attack, said police at the time.
Langley RCMP along with the Emergency Response Team and Air One descended on the woman’s home in the 24900 block of 72 Avenue after she called 911, saying she had been hit, tied up and her home ransacked.
A couple of suspects managed to flee the scene, but Allenby was arrested near the scene.
No other arrests were made in the case.
He was charged and released on $75,000 bail a short time later.
Allenby is a career criminal who has committed dozens of crimes over the past decade.
