Application aims to shed light on closed-door hearings in B.C. terror trial
VANCOUVER — A British Columbia Supreme Court judge is tasked with deciding how much the public should be allowed to know about the involvement of Canada’s spy agency in a terrorism probe.
Justice Catherine Bruce will consider if transcripts should be released to the media of a closed-door hearing into the role of an alleged Canadian Security Intelligence Service operative linked to the case of John Nuttall and Amanda Korody.
They were found guilty by a jury last June of conspiracy to commit murder and possessing explosives for the benefit of a terrorist organization.
The conviction has been put on hold while defence lawyers argue that police manipulated the pair into planting what they believed were bombs on the grounds of the B.C. legislature on Canada Day 2013.