VANCOUVER — Members of a British Columbia jury have been asked to curb their sympathies when deciding the fate of a husband and wife accused of plotting to blow up the provincial legislature.
Crown lawyer Peter Eccles says a life of hardship for John Nuttall and Amanda Korody — as recovering heroin addicts living on welfare — doesn’t make them any less guilty of plotting a terrorist act.
They have each pleaded not guilty to three terrorism-related charges stemming from a months-long RCMP sting operation.
In his closing submissions to the jury, Eccles says it doesn’t matter that the bombs planted by the pair in Victoria on Canada Day 2013 were duds.
He says Nuttall and Korody are guilty because they believed the explosives were real and that they carried out a plan they thought would kill and maim countless innocent people.
The Judge is expected to begin instructing the jury this afternoon.