Nygard says sentence 'excessive' in appeal

Fashion mogul was convicted on four counts of sexual assault

- JACQUES GALLANT

Disgraced fashion mogul and convicted sex offender Peter Nygard is asking Ontario's top court to overturn his four sexual assault convictions and "excessive" 11-year sentence, arguing that the judge made a plethora of errors at his Toronto trial.

Nygard, 83, was convicted by a jury last year of sexually assaulting three women and a 16-year-old girl in the top-floor bedroom of his former Toronto headquarters at 1 Niagara St. between the 1980s and 2005. He was sentenced to prison last week. In a notice filed with the Ontario Court of Appeal on Monday, Nygard's appeal lawyers argue that his sentence is "excessive and reflects an error in principle."