Amy Smart, Canadian Press Published Thursday, 5 May 2022, 3:16 PM EDT Last Updated on Thursday, 5 May 2022 8:33 PM EDT
VANCOUVER – A plane crash in Ontario that killed an alleged killer also killed a man believed to be linked to a separate murder plot.
An arrest warrant for Duncan Howard Bailey was issued by British Columbia authorities on April 26, days before a man with the same name died when a small plane crashed in a remote area of northwestern Ontario.
Authorities say Gene Larkamp, who was wanted in Thailand for the murder of a man linked to a gang in British Columbia, was also among the four men killed in the crash.
The information raises questions about why Bailey and Larkamp were on the same flight and what their relationship might be – details that British Columbia’s anti-gang department said it was investigating.
“We will investigate why and what connections, if anyone (Larkamp) had with these other people,” said Sergeant. This was said on Wednesday by Brenda Winpeny from the Special Forces for Combined Forces.
Police have identified the other two victims on the plane as pilots Abhinav Handa and Hankun Kong, both from Richmond, British Columbia.
The wreckage was discovered on Saturday after it was announced that the flight was overdue. He left Dryden, Ont., On Friday night, but never reached his destination in Marton, Ont., The Transportation Safety Board said.
Bailey’s indictment shows that he was charged along with two other men with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder in an attack on Mir Aali Hussein on October 6, 2020. Hussein was killed in a separate shooting nearly a year later. a homicide investigation team said I said.
The other two men pleaded guilty to attempted murder in March and are scheduled for September 12, the Supreme Court’s prosecutor’s office said.
Bailey’s last appearance in court in Vancouver was on April 4, and the arrest warrant was issued on April 26 for violating the conditions for bail.
In a separate appeal to the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Duncan Bailey was named as a defendant in an ongoing civil confiscation case. Court documents say Vancouver police seized nearly $ 400,000 from a property in Alberta and claim the money was payment for a conspiracy to kill on October 6, 2020.
Bailey has been identified as an “associate of the Independent Soldiers” in the lawsuit.
He denies all charges in a response filed in February, saying the money was received legally.
In a third case in 2012, British Columbia Supreme Court records show that Duncan Howard Bailey was a federal prisoner who successfully challenged his forced transfer to maximum security after being accused of standing guard while another prisoner was stabbed.
The head of the institution with maximum security in Kent admitted in court documents that the transfer took place without procedural justice. Bailey was not shown videos of the alleged attack when he disputed the allegations and asked to see him, the documents said.
Handa and Hong are not on BC’s criminal record.
Federal authorities, meanwhile, shed additional light on Larkamp and his alleged accomplice in Thursday’s murder in Thailand.
Larkamp and Matthew Dupre are accused of killing Jimmy Sandu on February 4 in Phuket, and police said they fled to Canada after the incident.
The Ministry of National Defense confirmed on Thursday that Larkamp and Dupre had served as infantry in the army and had left the army as corporals. He could not confirm whether the men had ever served together.
Lahrkamp served from February 2012 to February 2018, but was never deployed.
Dupre served from October 2005 to August 2013 and was stationed in Afghanistan for five months in 2010.
The LinkedIn profile for Matthew Dupre, who is said to have served from 2005 to 2013, also says he worked as a private military contractor in Iraq and Syria for five months in 2015. The profile describes some of his responsibilities as mentoring members of the Peshmerga and YPG armies and providing personal protection to a Kurdish army general.
Dupre was arrested in Alberta on February 20 and police say he remains in custody.
After the anti-gang unit failed to locate Lahrkamp in Canada, it partnered with the BOLO program, which partnered with police and Crimestoppers to expand communications.
On April 26, the same day Bailey’s arrest warrant was issued, BOLO identified Larkamp as No. 2 on Canada’s Top 25 most wanted list and offered a $ 100,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. .
The program identified Sandhu, the murder victim, as an Indian citizen and former Canadian who was known for his involvement in the UN gang, one of the groups involved in the ongoing conflict in British Columbia.
He was deported to India in 2016 for “serious crime”, the program said.
This Canadian Press report was first published on May 5, 2022.
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