British Colombia terrorism convictions overturned as judge rules pair were entrapped

‘Found guilty by a jury last year for planting inert pressure cooker bombs on the B.C. legislature grounds in 2013 with assistance by undercover RCMP, the couple was released after Bruce declared them victims of police entrapment on Friday morning.
“The world has enough terrorists, we do not need the police to create more,” Bruce said.
“This was not a situation in which the police were attempting to disrupt an ongoing criminal enterprise; rather, the offences committed by the defendants were brought about by the police and would not have occurred without their involvement. By any measure, this was a clear case of police-manufactured crime.”
The vulnerable couple was benign, she added.’

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