Court appearance for Air India bomb maker delayed

Vancouver: A court appearance scheduled Wednesday to allow convicted bomb maker Inderjit Singh Reyat to plead guilty to perjury has been delayed.
Families of the Air India bombing victims were told last week that Reyat was going to admit to lying on the stand in September 2003 in the trial of two other men accused in the terrorist plot.
A special court date was set for Wednesday afternoon so that he could enter a plea, avoiding a trial for perjury that was set to begin next week.
But instead, Reyat's lawyer, Ian Donaldson, was expected to tell the court that he had been unable to talk to his client, who is in Matsqui prison in Abbotsford, B.C., which was locked down following a riot there last weekend.
Reyat pleaded guilty to manslaughter five years ago for his role in the June 23, 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329 people.
He had been convicted in 1991 for building a second bomb that exploded the same day at Tokyo's Narita Airport, killing two baggage handlers.
30/01/08 Canwest News Service/Vancouver Sun/Canada.com, Canada

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