Gang members lose appeal over murder case
VERNON — Three members of a former Vernon gang have lost an appeal to have murder and other convictions overturned.
Peter Manolakos, Leslie Podolski and Sheldon O’Donnell — members of the Greeks — were convicted in 2012 in the drug related killings of three men.
They wanted to appeal a BC Supreme Court judge’s pre-trial ruling on the status of a confidential informant, saying they were excluded from the hearings.
A three member panel of the BC Court of Appeal ruled the three men did not have grounds to appeal.