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The primary investigator of the case and a senior Mountie, Staff-Sgt. Vaz Kassam, testified on Monday in a terror plot case involving John Nuttall and Amanda Korody. Kassam stressed that even though the suspects were admittedly poor and addicted to drugs, they posed genuine threat to public safety and needed to be investigated. He confessed to be aware of the couple’s vulnerabilities including being heroin addicts taking methadone and living on welfare in a basement suite.
The couple’s lawyer, Mark Jette, inquired the lead investigator that “did you factor into your thinking the vulnerabilities of these two people as they were made apparent to you, their drug-addicted status, their low socio-economic status?” Whereas, Kassam replied that “absolutely,” adding that “however, it didn’t negate the fact that there was still a threat. There were these comments that they were still willing to do something that potentially could cause a significant risk to public safety.” He explained that “regardless of their socio-economic situation, or their methadone dependence, the problem was that they were a threat based upon the conversations they were having and based upon the conversations they were having with the undercover operator.”
Nuttall and Korody were convicted in June for conspiracy to commit murder in connection with a plot to detonate bombs at the Victoria legislature on Canada Day 2013. However, the trial judge has allowed to delay the outcome of a hearing until it is determined whether the police were abusive and had entrapped the couple during the lengthy undercover operation.
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