Culture of complacency’ delayed Ibrahim Ali murder case: lawyer

Ali was found guilty of the 1st-degree murder of a 13-year-old girl in Burnaby’s Central Park. The lawyer for Ibrahim Ali, the man found guilty of killing a 13-year-old girl in Burnaby, B.C., said a “culture of complacency” from Crown and the court created so many unnecessary delays in proceedings that the verdict should now be stayed.
Kevin McCullough made the arguments on day two of a hearing in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver into a Jordan application filed on behalf of Ali.
A Jordan application seeks to have charges dropped for failing to meet the 30-month time limit to get to trial, as set by the Supreme Court of Canada in the 2016 case R. v. Jordan. Ali was found guilty of first-degree murder on Dec. 8, 2023. He now faces a mandatory life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years. The body of the girl, whose name is under a publication ban, was found in Burnaby’s Central Park in July 2017. Ali was arrested and charged about one year later.McCullough said issues not associated with the accused caused delays of close to 60 months, about double that of the Jordan standard….Source:cbc.ca/