Canada Judge Rules That Police Entrapped Couple in Bomb Plot

[Judi Lynn]

Source: New York Times

Canada Judge Rules That Police Entrapped Couple in Bomb Plot

By IAN AUSTENJULY 29, 2016



OTTAWA — A Canadian couple who planted what they believed were pressure-cooker bombs outside British Columbia’s legislature in 2013 were freed on Friday after a judge ruled that they had been entrapped by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

The couple, John Stuart Nuttall and Amanda Marie Korody, are recovering drug addicts who once lived on the street. They had been convicted of terrorism-related charges and were possibly facing life in prison because of their actions on Canada Day on July 1, 2013.

But in a scathing decision, Justice Catherine Bruce of the Supreme Court of British Columbia found that the Mounties had instigated the terrorist plot and manipulated the common-law couple.

“The defendants were the foot soldiers, but the undercover officer was the leader of the group,” Justice Bruce wrote in a decision that also dismissed the credibility of testimony by several police officers. “Without the police it would have been impossible for the defendants to carry out the pressure-cooker plan,” she added.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/world/americas/canada-rcmp-bc-bomb-plot.html?_r=0

[MrScorpio]

1. FBI tactics don't work so well in some other countries nt

[jtuck004]

2. That's what I was thinking. They would be in jail and the cops picking up ribbons

for doing a bang-up job. As it were.

Beats wasting your time trying to catch real criminals. And they shoot at you and stuff.

[Chakab]

3. This sounds like "The Newburgh Sting" and several other Bush-era FBI investigations

that led to "terror" convictions based on entrapment by the FBI and its shady informants.

If you aren't familiar with the Newburgh Sting, here's a documentary about the investigation:

It's outrageous.

[CanSocDem]

4. The RCMP is shameful.

They are well known for this type of police investigation. They are not the sophisticated, smartly-dressed crime fighters, on display around the world. Most of them are equivalent to those rogue cops of your own, who are gaining notoriety by murdering their fellow citizens by being hyped up on power and ignorant prejudice.

Maybe they're bored....(with our liberalized social values, there is just no need for crime anymore...)


'Despite the lack of any indication that they were plotting criminal acts, the police started an undercover operation in which officers posed as members of a terrorist group and befriended the couple. The plan was approved by the police force’s national headquarters.'



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[OnlinePoker]

5. Interesting to see how posts are viewed here.

Yesterday, I posted about this story just after it broke and it got one comment for 305 views.

[Sunlei]

6. police stingers even told these poor people they would die if they didn't continue.

But then they arrested them soon as they walked out of the courthouse free.

[onwardsand upwards]

7. A courageous judge!

The RCMP definitely play hardball ...