Surrey Six massacre
[3] The Thai-Canadian Edward "Eddie" Sousakhone Narong and the Vietnamese-Canadian Quang Vinh Thang "Michael" Le, both of whom lived in Coquitlam, had beaten to death a Korean-Canadian, Richard Jung, who was bullying them.
[8] On the afternoon of 19 October 2007, Schellenberg along with several other gasfitters were checking the gas fireplaces in all of the units in the Balmoral Tower for any possible flaws as part of an annual inspection, a requirement imposed by the condo corporation.
[12] A group of Red Scorpions that consisted of Matthew James Johnston, Cody Rae Haevischer, and Denis Karbovance rushed into Unit 1505 with their guns drawn.
[21] The massacre made the Bacon brothers infamous in British Columbia as the Lal Crew was "essentially exterminated", which showed how dangerous the competition for the control of the drug trade in the Lower Mainland had become.
[29] The elite police team spent much of their time being intoxicated at various bars and strip clubs while making sexual advances on female witnesses, which nearly ruined the case against Jamie Bacon.
[29] Two of the officers convicted claimed that their job stress made them incapable of rational thinking and the riotous bacchanalian excess that the squad engaged in was a result of their stress-induced mindlessness.
[29] Brassington's superior, Inspector David Attew of the RCMP, tried very hard to seduce the girlfriend of one of the witnesses for the Crown, which nearly caused the man to break off his agreement to testify against Jamie Bacon.
[40] It was revealed after his guilty plea in 2019 that Brassington had billed the Crown for overtime pay while he was in fact drinking and having sex with "Jane Doe 1" at the luxury hotels the couple stayed at in Calgary, Montreal, Toronto, Victoria, Halifax and Vancouver between June–December 2009.
"[39] On 11 September 2009, Jamie Bacon sued the Crown and warden Debbie Hawboldt of the Surrey Pretrial Services Centre, claiming that being held in solitary confinement was a form of torture.
[27] The statements from the two of the two detectives who sought to explain their heavy drinking on the job as due to being allegedly incapable of rational thought left the evidence gathered by the first investigation wide open to attack from Jamie Bacon's lawyers.
[27] On 23 June 2011, the RCMP charged Brassington, Attew, Johnson and Michaud with 20 counts of fraud, breach of trust, and obstruction of justice for their handling of the Surrey Six case.
[44] The RCMP Chief Superintendent for British Columbia, Janice Armstrong, told the media at the time: "The investigators charged in this case were senior, experienced and trusted police officers.
[49] Speaking through a Korean translator, Lee's friend, Young Mee Kim, also testified that she saw the three "scary men" in the black BMW leave the parking lot of the Balmoral Tower at high speed at about 2: 45 pm.
[59] Le testified that Johnston had told him on the day of the massacre at a meeting at a shopping plaza that he did not plan to kill Narong who happened to arrive at unit 1505 after the killers had entered.
[61] On 7 July 2014, Buck attacked KM as a witness, calling her a career criminal with no respect for the truth who committed perjury for the Crown because she was angry with her ex-boyfriend Haevischer.
[62] Likewise, Buck attacked Michael Le as a witness, calling him a self-interested career criminal who made a plea bargain with the Crown for a lesser sentence.
[29] At his sentencing, Brassington cried hysterically in the courtroom as he admitted that his affair with "Jane Doe 1" had ruined his career, led to his marriage ending in divorce and the estrangement of his children, saying: "As a dad I shouldn't have done this.
[29] The journalist Rhianna Schunk who attended the sentencing described Brassington as a broken man who between his sobs seemed to have much self-pity for himself as he sought to portray himself as a victim, claiming that the affair was caused by work-related stress.
[70] On 9 October 2019, the RCMP Commissioner, Brenda Lucki, writing on behalf of the Public Safety Minister, Ralph Goodale, rejected Brassington's request that the Crown pay his $255,383 legal bill relating to his case.
[71] Sek was ordered deported back to his native Cambodia in October 2019 on the account of his lengthy criminal record in Canada, including his involvement in the Surrey Six massacre.
[73] Attew, who began his career as a Mountie in April 1991, alleged that he was suffering from overwork, stress, and substance abuse relating to alcohol when he was assigned to the Surrey Six case in 2007 over his protests.
[8] Mohan's passionate appeals to Ker to overturn the joint submission by the Crown and the defense counsel for the plea bargain and impose a life sentence on Bacon were ignored.
Ker stated that the "egregious misconduct" of the Mounties investigating the case with Brassington sleeping with a key witness as the reason for her refusal to impose a life sentence on Bacon.
[8] Ker stated that because of the "egregious misconduct" of Brassington and the rest of the detectives that 18 years in prison with credit for time served in jail was the most severe sentence she could impose on Bacon.
[75] In a filing to the Supreme Court, the lawyers for Haevischer and Johnston wrote: "The officers endangered the safety of these young women, lied to their superiors, and manipulated overtime and expense claims to cover up their alcohol-fuelled revelry".
[75] The same filing complained that both Johnston and Haevischer were denied bail after their arrests in April 2009 and during their time in jail were subjected to "conditions of confinement akin to torture for more than a year — including an always-lit cell smeared with mucous, feces and blood — isolating them from meaningful human contact and limiting their access to counsel.
[77] McDonald ruled: "The determinative issue on this application for judicial review is whether Mr. Brassington had a fair process for the consideration of his further request for (legal assistance at public expense) funding.
The hearings began in Vancouver on 4 November 2024 with Simon Buck, the lawyer for Haevischer, seeking to overturn the verdict and the first witness being RCMP assistant commissioner David Teboul.
[80] Michuad testified that during a visit to Toronto in 2009 that he and Paul Johnson were drinking with Jane Doe at Jack Astor’s Bar and Grill and that she had made sexual advances towards him afterwards at her apartment.
[80] In his cross-examination, Buck expressed skepticism about this claim, saying that by Michaud's own admission he had an extremely attractive woman made advances towards him over a course of a single evening, which he somehow just forgot when talking to detectives a year later.
