Final Arguments Begin In B.C. Terrorism Trial With Focus On 'Spiritual Guidance'

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 06 Jun, 2016 12:13 PM

VANCOUVER — The lawyer for a man found guilty of plotting to bomb the British Columbia legislature says spiritual guidance offered by undercover police officers lies at the heart of the entrapment case.

Closing arguments have begun in B.C. Supreme Court over whether John Nuttall and Amanda Korody were manipulated into planting explosives on the legislature lawn during Canada Day in 2013.

The pair was arrested three years ago following an elaborate undercover sting operation.

Nuttall's lawyer, Marilyn Sandford, says police took it upon themselves to provide spiritual guidance and did so in a way that dismissed the concerns her client repeatedly raised over committing violence in the name of Islam.

A jury found Nuttall and Korody guilty of conspiring to commit a terrorism act last June.

The judge in the case put the convictions on hold to allow Nuttall and Korody's lawyers to argue that their clients had been entrapped by police.

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