West Vancouver police officer Const. Griffin Gillan enters provincial court Wednesday to hear his sentence for assault.

A West Vancouver police officer has been given a conditional 21-day sentence for a drunken assault on a 47-year-old newspaper deliveryman in downtown Vancouver in January.

The sentence handed down Wednesday means Const. Griffin Gillan, 25, will not spend any time behind bars but will be limited in his movements for the three-week period, undergo six months probation and have a criminal record.

Gillan must remain in his residence between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., must not contact the victim of the assault, and is not allowed to leave the province without written permission of the court.

Gillan has been suspended from the West Vancouver force without pay and faces a disciplinary hearing in which he could be fired.

The victim, Phil Khan, told police he had been beaten and robbed by three off-duty police officers outside the Hyatt Hotel.

Gillan apologized in court for his behaviour when he pleaded guilty to assault on July 17.

Gillan told police he had had 20 drinks at two bars on the night of the attack and said in court he had no recollection of most of what happened, including being at the bars or the subsequent assault on Khan.

Police assault victim Phil Khan testified he was attacked by three police officers who uttered racial slurs as they beat him.

Khan said he was beaten and robbed of $200 by the off-duty police officers outside a hotel in the 600-block of Burrard Street as he made an early-morning newspaper delivery.

Khan said the men smelled of alcohol and uttered racial slurs when they began the unprovoked attack.

The Crown had sought a jail term of four to six months for Gillan.

New Westminster officer faces charge

Gillan was originally charged with one count of robbery and pleaded not guilty in March, but the Crown dropped that count, owing to conflicting witness statements, and replaced it with the assault charge.

A second officer, Const. Jeff Klassen of New Westminster police, has been charged with one count of assault over the same incident. He pleaded not guilty in March.

The third officer who was present, a member of the Delta police force, was not charged as investigators concluded he had tried to stop the attack.