Father of Vancouver Canuck convicted of conspiracy to commit murder
Posted June 5, 2016 7:30 pm.
Last Updated June 5, 2016 10:30 pm.
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PRINCE ALBERT, SASK (NEWS 1130) – The father of Vancouver Canuck Linden Vey has been found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder.
Curtis Vey and his lover Angela Nicholson were accused of plotting to kill their spouses in Saskatchewan.
The jury in Prince Albert took close to 30 hours before convicting the two Sunday afternoon.
Crown prosecutor Lori O’Connor had argued that the pair planned to kill Vey’s wife, Brigitte, in a house fire, and Nicholson’s husband, Jim Taylor by drugging him and then making him disappear.
Court heard earlier in the trial that Brigitte Vey hid an iPod under the kitchen table at their farmhouse and secretly recorded her husband and Nicholson hatching the plan on July 1, 2013.
O’Connor said based on that conversation, both of the accused met the threshold for conspiracy to commit murder.
But Vey and Nicholson’s lawyers told court their clients weren’t serious about killing their spouses and didn’t have any intention of doing so.
Neither of the accused took the stand in the case, which began two weeks ago.
The two will be sentenced in September.
