WATCH: Investigators have been accused of misconduct and defense lawyers are looking for overturned murder convictions. John Daly reports.
New allegations against RCMP investigators in the Surrey Six trial are prompting the defense counsel for the convicted murderers to call for a mistrial.
“It’s the only remedy to address that prejudice,” said Dagmar Dlab, who is applying to have the case thrown out on grounds of abuse of process.
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“An officer should not be having sex with a potential witness, a potentially important witness, and before taking a statement and then covering it up.”
B.C.’s Supreme Court has heard allegations this week that four officers – Derek Brassington, Dave Attew, and two other officers – had sexual interactions with potential witnesses in the long-running Surrey Six trial. They are set to go to trail next September.
Cody Haevischer and Matthew Johnston were found guilty earlier this month in the 2007 deaths of four gangsters and two bystanders.
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Sentencing could happen as early as December, depending on how the Justice Catherine Wedge rules on the application.
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