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The alleged circumstances leading up to Gold’s death are protected by a court-ordered ban on publication. While Eustache is charged with murder, his four co-accused Nathan Townsend, Darien Rohel, John Daviss and Sean Scurt are each charged with manslaughter. Troy Gold was last seen at his Kamloops home on Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. His remains were later found in the Lac du Bois area north of the city. Following a multi-day bail hearing and arguments from defence lawyer Jay Michi, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Dev Dley decided on Tuesday (Dec. 15) to grant Eustache $25,000 bail on a number of strict conditions. He will remain behind bars until probation officers are able to complete a technical suitability report to make sure electronic monitoring is possible in the North Kamloops home in which Eustache is expected to reside, alongside relatives.
Kamloops RCMP Supt. Syd Lecky noted Car 40 had 291 interventions in July, August and September of 2020, compared to 93 during that same time period in 2019.
The committee heard from Kamloops RCMP and city staff that there is a need for a sobering centre. According to the Vancouver Island Mental Health Society, which operates a facility in Campbell River, a sobering centre is a place that offers sobering beds for short-term services, available to people experiencing intoxication due to drug or alcohol use. “The accessible, safe and staffed facilities have been shown to significantly reduce the use of hospitals, city cells, shelters and public spaces for people who are vulnerable when under the influence of substances and/or in crisis,” the society states on its website. “Sobering and assessment centres can also assist people in stabilizing and making a plan (if desired) to obtain appropriate medical care, supports, and resources to meet daily living needs.”
“That’s a big game changer for us in terms of how we are going to be able to hold and keep people in custody and the legal steps that we have to go through to be able to justify that,” Lecky said. “Not just in custody, but whatever conditions, bail comments, that sort of thing that we have for people.” The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in the summer that a person accused of breaching bail must “knowingly or recklessly” violate conditions in order to be found guilty of a breach. It stemmed from a trial for Chaycen Michael Zora, who was convicted of failing to comply with police checks while on bail.