RCMP video system failed the day Sikh journalist was killed

An RCMP video surveillance system installed at the home of a potential witness in the prosecution of key suspects in the 1985 Air India bombing wasn't working the day he was murdered in 1998, the inquiry heard Thursday.
And it appears the Mounties never informed the grieving family of journalist Tara Singh Hayer that the equipment had failed to capture any images of the assailants.
David Hayer, the son of the slain man and a Liberal member of the B.C. legislature, said the first time he learned of the video failure was this week — when he got a look at internal police documents just before they were tabled at the inquiry.
The senior Hayer, an outspoken opponent of Sikh terrorism, had told police he had received death threats, and his family thought the Mounties weren't taking the matter seriously enough.
The force eventually installed the video equipment after being tipped that Hayer might be on a hit list compiled by his enemies.
Hayer was left paralyzed and wheelchair-bound by a 1988 shooting, then killed in a shooting in 1998 before he could testify in court. Nobody has been convicted in either attack.
15/11/07 The Canadian Press/CBC News, Canada

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