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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Mother of accused in 2013 Canada Day bomb plot says she supports her son

John Nuttall is shown in this undated photo. The mother of a British Columbia man co-accused of planning to bomb the B.C. legislature on Canada day last year is speaking out about her son and the charges against him. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Kristina Verruyt Nearly a year after a British Columbia man was arrested for allegedly plotting to bomb the B.C. legislature during Canada Day, his mother says she maintains her firm belief in his innocence. John Nuttall and his co-accused Amanda Korody were charged last July in what Mounties described as a plan to use pressure cooker bombs to target celebrations in Victoria. The two are in B.C. Supreme Court this week as Justice Catherine Bruce hears a four-day legal application related to the charges. Nuttall's mother, Maureen Smith, who travelled from Victoria to attend the hearing, said outside the Vancouver courthouse on Wednesday that it is important for her to support her son during the most trying time in his life, even though hearing the legal arguments is "brutal."




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