Overview
- The 10-week hearing began Jan. 19 at UBC Robson Square with retired B.C. Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Arnold-Bailey presiding.
- Margaret Gray is slated as the first witness, with three civilian witnesses expected to testify on the opening day.
- Seven Vancouver Police constables — Kory Folkestad, Eric Birzneck, Derek Cain, Josh Wong, Beau Spencer, Hardeep Sahota and Nick Thompson — are identified as involved.
- The officers cannot be compelled to testify, though adverse inferences may be drawn if they decline, according to the OPCC.
- The hearing was ordered after a 2024 discipline authority cleared the officers despite evidentiary limits, following an IIO finding of reasonable grounds, a 2020 decision not to charge, and a 2023 coroner’s homicide verdict.