Court filings said police officers exploited the trust of key protected female witnesses in order to have sex with them.
Two men convicted in the 2007 Surrey Six mass murder were before the Supreme Court of Canada Tuesday as the justices heard a prosecution appeal of a B.C. appeal court decision.
That conviction was in 2014 but the pair appealed in October 2020. In January 2021, the B.C. Court of Appeal upheld the guilty verdicts and denied a request for a new trial. Haevischer and Johnston’s lawyers, however, argue they should be allowed to proceed with their stay applications given the behaviour of police and prison authorities.
Further, it alleges police directed prison authorities to subject the men “to conditions of confinement akin to torture for more than a year — including an always-lit cell smeared with mucous, feces and blood — isolating them from meaningful human contact and limiting their access to counsel. The conditions were characterized by the trial judge as cruel and unusual punishment.”
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