B.C. Appeal Court upholds stay in terror case over alleged bomb plot
VANCOUVER — The RCMP’s conduct in its investigation of an alleged bomb plot at the B.C. legislature was a “travesty of justice” when officers continued to pursue the case against a couple who didn’t have the means to commit an act of terrorism on their own, the province’s Appeal Court said Wednesday.
A three-judge panel unanimously upheld a lower court finding that John Nuttall and Amanda Korody were manipulated by police to conduct the terror operation on Canada Day in 2013.
While the trial judge made some errors in her analysis, she made no mistake in finding they were entrapped by the Mounties, Justice Elizabeth Bennett says in the ruling.
“In this case, the police eventually knew Mr. Nuttall and Ms. Korody had little to no ability to commit an act of terrorism. Certainly, they were right to commence the investigation, and certainly they had reasonable suspicion that the two might commit a crime,” she writes on behalf of the Appeal Court panel.