B.C. Supreme Court Justice has found a man not guilty of a murder in Williams Lake after determining that a key witness was unable to confirm beyond reasonable doubt that he was a culprit.
Regner and Laplante had been forced off a bridge in the community of 11,505 people 236 kilometres south of Prince George sometime over the night of Aug. 8-9, 2019.Laplante was able to swim to a nearby island where she spent the night. In the morning, she swam to shore, climbed up a cliff and made her way to a farmhouse where she got help.
Laplante's observations at the time of the incident were made in the dark of night, as events were quickly unfolding and under terrifying circumstances, Ross concluded, noting in part that at one point, another person had pointed a handgun at Laplante's head which may have distracted her from getting a proper look at the man she thought was Drynock.