Thursday July 11, 2013 (Vol. 38 No. 56)
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Eye in the sky: Victoria researcher Hugh Trenchard will get a different view of this weekend’s Tour de White Rock – from high above – as he attempts to further his study into cycling’s peloton. › see page 39
Fireworks to be a fire show, parade becomes a procession
Focused sea fest ‘to feel busier’ Tracy Holmes Staff Reporter
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Online photographs of John Nuttall and Amanda Korody, who are accused of plotting to set off pressure-cooker bombs at the legislature.
Husband carries Qur’an into court, wife advised to obtain separate counsel
Terror charges mount against couple Sheila Reynolds Black Press
The Surrey woman accused of plotting to plant pressure-cooker bombs outside the B.C. legislature on Canada Day blew a kiss to her husband and co-accused during a brief appearance in Vancouver Supreme Court Wednesday morning. Amanda Marie Korody and John Stewart Nuttall, who are being held separately in custody, gazed at each other, smiling and chatting while waiting for the judge. During the short proceeding, Nuttall’s lawyer, Tom Morino, indicated his client was applying for legal aid. Korody doesn’t yet have a lawyer. The day before, the couple was in Surrey Provincial Court, where they heard that their case would be transferred to the higher court for direct indictment. In Surrey, Nuttall – tall and thin, and sporting longish hair, a scraggly beard and tattoos on his right arm – carried a copy of the Qur’an – the Muslim holy book – into court and appeared at ease, sometimes smiling. Sitting in a separate Plexiglas prisoner’s
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Courtroom sketch of the accused Tuesday.
box, his wife appeared meek and nervous with shoulder-length brown hair, smiling only upon seeing Nuttall. Nuttall, 38 and Korody, 29, were initially charged with making or possessing an explosive device, conspiracy to commit an indictable offence and knowingly facilitating terrorist activity. A fourth charge – of conspiring to murder persons unknown for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a terrorist organization – was added Tuesday.
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B.C. RCMP arrested Nuttall and Korody in Abbotsford on July 1 after a five-month investigation that began in February. Outside Surrey court on Tuesday, Nuttall’s lawyer said he recommended Korody get her own legal counsel. Morino said the two have been kept in segregation – reportedly for their own security – only being allowed out of their cells for an hour a day. Nuttall, Morino said, is being held in Surrey, while Korody is at Alouette Correctional Centre for Women in Maple Ridge. Morino explained that while such a case would wind its way through provincial court and eventually end up in B.C. Supreme Court, the Crown chose to proceed with direct indictment at the higher court level. “It doesn’t really change a lot other than it changes the venue,” said Morino. He said he spoke with Nuttall Monday night for a couple of hours. “As you can appreciate, anyone in custody is not necessarily overjoyed… but I think he’s doing about as well as can be expected. › see page 4
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Organizers of White Rock’s Spirit of the Sea Festival say funding challenges have led to a whole new concept for the longweekend event. Historically, the festival – set for Aug. 3 and 4 – has offered events and activities that stretch from East to West Beach, including fireworks and a Torchlight Parade. This year, a fire show will replace the fireworks, and the parade will instead be a car-free, half-kilometre “carnival procession.” As well, everything – with the exception of paddleboard races – will take place in the East Beach area, from soccer and hockey in the middle of Marine ❝A lot of Drive, to a waterfront people just marketplace, with the don’t like entire stretch of road different. The blocked off to traffic. “We had to reinvent benefits seem the festival,” director to outweigh Matt Todd explained any feel-good Friday. “This idea, this of clinging concept we’re going with to the way it now… we can have the same number of events used to be.❞ Matt Todd and it’ll feel busier. It’s all happening in one area, and you can see it and be a part of it.” The parade is to take place on Aug. 3. Starting at 9 p.m. from Finlay Street, it will proceed west to Balsam Street then loop back to Finlay through the parking lots. The idea is to create “a giant congoline” feeling, Todd said, noting everyone who takes up the opportunity to join in will still be able to see the procession. › see page 4
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