The Nova Scotian man suspected of dropping an Edmonton teen on his head last week in the Dominican Republic was convicted of assault causing bodily harm in his home province a decade back for kicking and punching a man at a party who was fighting someone else at the time.

Kyle Stephen Denny, 34, is the suspect in the attack against Edmonton teen Chase Delorme-Rowan, who is clinging to life in a hospital in the Caribbean country. So far, there is no indication of what prompted the violence, which occurred in the bar of a Punta Cana resort.