The 52-year-old woman faces two counts of unlawfully providing the gunman with ammunition in the month leading up to the April 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia
N.S. mass shooter s spouse pleads not guilty to unlawfully supplying him ammunition
by The Canadian Press
Last Updated May 5, 2021 at 10:58 am EDT
RCMP investigators search for evidence at the location where Const. Heidi Stevenson was killed along the highway in Shubenacadie, N.S. on Thursday, April 23, 2020. Police say the man who went on a murderous rampage through five Nova Scotia communities was likely using unlicensed firearms, and investigators are trying find out how he obtained illegal weapons. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
HALIFAX The common law spouse of the man responsible for killing 22 people in April 2020 in Nova Scotia is pleading not guilty to charges she illegally provided him ammunition.
RCMP investigators search for evidence at the location where Const. Heidi Stevenson was killed along the highway in Shubenacadie, N.S., on Thursday, April 23, 2020. The common law spouse of the man responsible for killing 22 people last April in Nova Scotia is pleading not guilty to charges she illegally provided him with ammunition. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
HALIFAX – The common law spouse of the man responsible for killing 22 people in April 2020 in Nova Scotia is pleading not guilty to charges she illegally provided him ammunition.
Lisa Banfield, 52, is facing two counts of unlawfully providing the shooter with ammunition in the month leading up to the mass killings.
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The spouse of the Nova Scotia spree killer Gabriel Wortman has pleaded not guilty to charges that she supplied ammunition used in the 22 murders and related violence that began in Portapique, N.S., a year ago.
A lawyer for Lisa Banfield, 52, entered the plea Wednesday morning by phone appearance in Nova Scotia court before Judge Theodore Tax.
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She is facing two charges of unlawfully transferring to Wortman cartridges for two kinds of guns in the month leading up to the April 18-19 killing spree. Police have said she had “no prior knowledge” of what he would eventually do with the ammunition.
The common-law spouse of the man responsible for last April’s mass killings has pleaded not guilty to two charges that she faces in connection with the tragedy.