Inside man or scapegoat? Two accounts clash at trial over major Canadian gold heist
Crown and defence have offered opposing scenarios for a then-Air Canada employee accused in one of the biggest gold heists in Canadian history.
Reported by Vancouver Is Awesome; court records not yet reviewed.
Illustrative photoWas he the inside man, or the fall guy? At a trial tied to one of the biggest gold heists in Canadian history, the Crown and the defence have put two very different answers before the court, Vancouver Is Awesome reported.
The accused was an Air Canada employee at the time of the heist. The Crown's scenario is that he was an inside man who helped carry it out.
The defence tells it the other way around. In its account, he was a scapegoat, exploited by a longtime friend and left to shoulder the blame.
The two versions cannot both be true. One makes him a participant in the theft. The other makes him a person used by someone close to him, and he is presumed innocent unless the Crown proves otherwise.
The court will have to weigh which of the two accounts it accepts.
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