Lawyer arraignment delayed
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Police had been on scene in March at a house on Columbia Avenue owned by Butch Bagabuyo, a Kamloops lawyer going through one rely of interfering with human stays.
A change in prosecutors has delayed the arraignment of a Kamloops lawyer going through grisly expenses related to the loss of life of a Thompson Rivers College teacher.
Butch Bagabuyo, 54, is going through one rely of interfering with human stays. He was arrested and charged in March, days after Mohd Abdullah’s physique was discovered by police in a automobile parked outdoors a house on Monterey Place, a cul de sac off Hillside Drive in Dufferin.
Abdullah had been reported lacking on March 11. His physique was discovered on March 17.
In accordance with courtroom paperwork, Bagabuyo is accused of inserting Abdullah’s physique “in a plastic bin.” The main points of the allegations towards him are protected by a court-ordered publication ban.
Bagabuyo was imagined to have been arraigned in Kamloops provincial courtroom on Thursday, however the listening to was adjourned on account of a change in prosecutors.
David Ruse, a Kelowna-based Crown prosecutor, had been coping with the file on account of conflicts within the Kamloops Crown workplace given Bagabuyo’s line of labor. Ruse was named a provincial courtroom choose final week and the file has not but been reassigned.
The murder investigation into Abdullah’s loss of life is ongoing. Police may very well be seen in March showing to execute search warrants at Bagabuyo’s Columbia Avenue house and his Victoria Avenue workplace.
Kamloops RCMP Supt. Syd Lecky has mentioned Bagabuyo’s job as a lawyer made the investigation a really difficult one.
Bagabuyo was granted bail on March 25. He stays free on numerous circumstances, together with orders prohibiting him from visiting his house or his workplace, or from having contact with numerous potential Crown witnesses.
He was additionally ordered to give up his passport to police.
Bagabuyo’s arraignment is now anticipated to happen on Aug. 25.
