The prosecutor in the B.C. Supreme Court murder trial for an escaped inmate says evidence shows the accused and another escapee were “inseparable,” and proves the pair planned their attack to get banking information from their victim.
In closing arguments in the trial of James Lee Busch Monday, Crown attorney Chandra Fisher said the accused and another man waited all day for the victim to return from work.
They gathered weapons and duct tape to confine him before he was murdered, she said.
“They either planned and deliberated ahead of time that they were going to kill him from the beginning, or that they were planning to unlawfully confine him and ended up killing him in the course of that confinement, and Mr. Busch was an active participant in that,” she told the jury….