Charges Stayed Against Jamie Bacon In 'Surrey Six' Murders

VANCOUVER -- A trial stemming from the murders of six people in British Columbia has fallen apart after a judge stayed charges against a man Friday, referencing misplaced evidence, the testimony of a confidential informant and the fair trial rights of the accused in her decision.

Jamie Bacon was accused of the first-degree murder of 21-year-old Corey Lal, one of six people murdered in a highrise apartment in October 2007 in Surrey, B.C.

The B.C. Supreme Court released its ruling Friday in an application for a stay filed by Bacon's lawyers in the so-called Surrey Six case.

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How B.C.’S Ill-Equipped System Spawned The Longest Child Welfare Fight In Canada’s History

In the final part of a CKNW special investigation, reporter Charmaine de Silva uncovers how this case highlights why our system is ill-equipped to deal with families at their breaking point.

‘The longest child welfare, civil litigation, family custody fight in the history of Canada’
“If you want to see in one big picture, in one case, all the failures, all the flaws of the system, chronologically almost, you go to this case.”

That was how Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, B.C.’s former children’s watchdog, summed up the case of J.P., her ex-husband B.G., and their four kids. The parents’ names cannot be revealed due to a publication ban.

Turpel-Lafond called their case the “longest child welfare, civil litigation, family custody fight in the history of Canada.”

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