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Lawyer Suggests Undercover Cop Steered Accused B.C. Terrorist To Quicker Plan

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 08 Apr, 2015 02:06 PM
    VANCOUVER — The defence lawyer of an accused terrorist allegedly plotting to blow up the B.C. legislature is suggesting that an undercover officer was heavy handed in steering her client.
     
    Marilyn Sandford suggested the officer wanted John Nuttall to come up with a feasible plan within a short time frame during the months-long sting in 2013.
     
    On Wednesday in B.C. Supreme Court, she told the officer that his goal was to discourage Nuttall from building rockets and focus him on a more realistic attack plan.
     
    The officer, who cannot be identified, denied the suggestion and said he was actually trying to dissuade Nuttall from building homemade explosives for reasons of public safety.
     
    Nuttall and his wife and co-accused Amanda Korody are on trial for allegedly planting three homemade pressure-cooker bombs in Victoria in the early hours of Canada Day in 2013.
     
    They have pleaded not guilty to four terrorism-related charges.

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