B.C.’s top court has overturned the bail given to an elderly convicted killer seeking to appeal his conviction, saying that his release would negatively impact public faith in the justice system.
The B.C. Court of Appeal set aside the bail order for Adrianus Johannes Rosbergen and had the 83-year-old returned to custody last month, according to the recently published ruling by the three-judge panel.
“Given the weak merits of the appeal, the seriousness of the offence, and the appellant’s moral culpability, there is a strong public interest in this case in seeing the sentence imposed without delay,” wrote Justice Lauri Ann Fenlon in the unanimous ruling….