Air India bomber appeals perjury conviction

Vancouver: Air India bomb maker Inderjit Singh Reyat is appealing both his perjury conviction and his nine-year prison sentence.
According to documents filed Feb. 4 in the B.C. Court of Appeal, defence lawyer Ian Donaldson claims B.C. Supreme Court Justice Mark McEwan made several mistakes, including misdirecting the jury and failing to direct jurists that there was no evidence to support portions of the Crown’s closing address at Reyat’s five-day perjury trial last year in Vancouver.
Reyat was the only person convicted in the June 23, 1985, bombing that killed all 329 people on board Air India Flight 182. A second bomb, meant for another Air India flight, killed two baggage handlers that same day at Tokyo’s Narita airport.
Reyat later pleaded not guilty to lying while under oath at the trial of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, who were acquitted in the bombings in March 2005.
08/02/11 QMI Agency/Toronto SUN.com

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