VANCOUVER — A B.C. man accused of planning a terrorist attack in Victoria told an undercover RCMP officer that he was repulsed with the idea of killing, but he said it was necessary.
John Nuttall is on trial alongside his wife, Amanda Korody, over allegations they plotted to set off pressure-cooker bombs at the provincial legislature on Canada Day in 2013.
In a video played in court, Nuttall tells an undercover police officer that the thought of killing another person makes him sick, and he asks whether that feeling is normal.
The officer replies that it's unnatural to kill and he tells Nuttall several times that he does not have to go through with the plan if he doesn't want to.
But Nuttall replies that it has to be done because as Muslims they are in the middle of a war.
The Crown alleges that Nuttall and Korody, who were recent converts to Islam, planned the attack over what they perceived as the mistreatment of Muslims overseas.
