One of the defense attorneys involved in the public inquiry into the Nova Scotia mass shooting believes there is “more than enough” evidence for the search to shoot.
Michael Scott ng Patterson’s Lawthat the company represents the families of many of the victims, also believes that an RCMP officer who visited the shooter more than a dozen times in the years before the hunt should testify to their relationship.
Documents released by the Mass Casualty Commission state actions taken by the police in response to complaints about Gabriel Wortman in 2010, 2011 and 2013.
According to me Scotthad fairly specific complaints where people have expressed concerns about illegal firearms and his intention to use them I think under any normal circumstances that is more than enough for the police to go to a judge and get a search warrant.he said.
Three Complaints
In the first case, Cordell Poirier, a retired Halifax Regional Police officer, learned that the shooter called his uncle in Alberta and allegedly threatened to kill his parents in New Brunswick. The officer spoke to the father, who said his son had guns in the Portapique cabin and was an alcoholic.
He added that he had not seen the weapons for more than five years. Because of this shortcoming, Cordell Poirier said in his report that without recent knowledge, a public safety warrant cannot be obtained.
The complaint was handed over to the officer Greg Wiley from the office of RCMP ng Bible Hill. Constable Wiley recalls the situation as a family dispute over ownership.
In May 2011, a second complaint, a Truro official found out about it from an unknown person Gabriel Wortman with guns and wanted kill the police.
Constable Poirier recognized Gabriel Wortman’s name and he called the Bible Hill Detachment where he spoke with a supervisor to make sure he was aware of the new complaint. Greg Wiley does not remember this complaint. He said the RCMP is accepting a million complaints.
He added that he had a professional relationship with the shooter between 2008 and 2017.
I can tell you that as a lawyer, I don’t understand thissaid Michael Scott.
Be warned this way and choose to do nothing!
If Scottwho primarily practices criminal law, said he often encounters search warrants in drug cases where police have received judicial authorization based on anonymous snippets of information.
When commission investigators asked Greg Wiley If the complaint in 2011 that a police officer wanted to kill the shooter was alarming, he said he had no recollection of being given anything. too formal.
When the commission investigator asked about his experience with warrant applications, Greg Wiley he declared did not actually write commands while working in Nova Scotia.
As for the third complaint against the shooter, it was filed in 2013 by Brenda Forbes, neighbor of the shoot in Portapique. He said he reported his neighbor for domestic violence. But he said the RCMP had failed to act.
Lack of evidence
The National Police Federation, which represents RCMP members below the rank of inspector, said no insufficient evidence to allow RCMP officers to obtain search warrants for firearms at the shooter’s residence.
Greg Wiley is not a member of RCMP that for several years Bible Hill when he first met the shooter in 2008, after investigating a case in which equipment was stolen from his garage.
He described the shooter as friendly and accommodating and visited it approximately 16 times in the years between 2008 and 2011 before moving elsewhere.
Greg Wiley he said he had no other community sources in Portapique, but he had acquaintances in other places where he stopped chatting.
Despite frequent visits and lack of follow-up on complaints, the agent Greg Wiley making sure he has no special relationship with Gabriel Wortman.
However, Agent Poirier told the Commission that Greg Wiley He was told to shoot is a good friend to him.
This discrepancy is one of the reasons why Michael Scott and the other attorneys asked Officer Wiley to testify in person.
In his interview with the commission, the agent Greg Wiley admitted wondering if some signs had escaped him.
Did I fall asleep at the steering wheel? I have to live with my consciencehe said.
The commission has not yet said when or if the agent Greg Wiley will be called to testify again.
With information from haley ryan ng CBC
Source: Radio-Canada
