The Supreme Court of Canada is set to rule Friday on an appeal by two men found guilty of first-degree murder in the gang executions of six people in Metro Vancouver more than 15 years ago.
However, his lawyer Brock Martland said he spoke with Johnston the day before he died and he wanted the Supreme Court of Canada to order a hearing “to show the public the extent of police misconduct.” Johnston and Haevischer were found guilty in 2014 for the murders, which their trial heard was part of a gang turf war. The men went to a Surrey highrise with victim Corey Lal as their main target, but his brother Michael Lal, Edward Narong and Ryan Bartolomeo were also in the apartment.
“It’s not about reopening the evidence at trial and whether the Crown has proved its case,” he said. “The Crown has proved its case, and that won’t change.” Their lawyers said in submissions to the high court the B.C. Court of Appeal correctly ordered a hearing for them to introduce evidence to back up their claims.
“The nature of what happened here, it’s the sort of stuff that could have given rise to a public inquiry, that profound level of misconduct on a case this serious,” he said. “To my mind, that gives rise to a whole host of broader systemic questions about the RCMP and about the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team and I don’t know to what extent those questions have been addressed at a systemic level.
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