When Crown lawyer Liz Nadeau asked about hydrogen peroxide, Anderson replied:
It’s the sort of bleach you would use if you wanted to look blond.”
Read the whole story at CBC News - G20 trial hears from explosives expert
“It is my opinion that there were more than enough materials present to make explosives, and to make improvised explosive devices,” Anderson testified.
At the same time, however, Anderson’s testimony highlighted how many products and items that can be used to make bombs — such as chemical cleaners, solvents and a hotplate — are commonly found in many homes and easily bought at hardware stores or supermarkets.
“That is the difficulty with a lot of this stuff,” Anderson said at one point.
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The Crown is not trying to prove that Sonne planned to blow anything up at the G20, only that he had explosives at home and a fascination with the summit.
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Clearly, the neatly labelled containers of various chemicals and the apparatus in his home went well beyond what most homeowners have.
Still, none of the chemicals appears to have been illegal, and the defence is expected to argue that none had been combined into anything dangerous.
This also sums up the whole nonsense trial against Byron:
The Crown is not alleging he was going to blow anything up at the summit.
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Police found no books on bomb making, but did turn up the “Encyclopedia of Serial Killers.”
Read the whole story at CBC News - Toronto G20 trial underway
One of the highest-profile trials to arise from the Toronto G20 summit began in earnest Monday, after defendant Byron Sonne lost a bid to have a host of evidence excluded from the process.
Despite the overwhelming publicity Sonne’s case has received, the first day of his trial was decidedly anticlimactic. Rather than delivering a sweeping opening statement, the Crown launched immediately into the minutiae of the case, spending hours cataloguing a series of photographs taken by police investigators in the accused’s basement laboratory.
Read the whole story at Canada.com - Contested evidence in G20 accused’s trial admissible, judge rules
This pretty much sums up the whole case against Byron:
What police originally thought was a homemade detonator turned out to be an electric thermometer.
Read the whole story at The Toronto Star - Evidence admitted despite Charter violations
The defence had argued that police violated Sonne’s Charter rights on a number of occasions, both during questioning and in obtaining search warrants, and requested that the associated evidence be thrown out.
While Judge Spies acknowledged a breach in one instance, pertaining to the production of Mr. Sonne’s Visa records, she decided to admit the evidence regardless. A portion of his police statement linked to the Visa records was being excluded because the judge was concerned it was not given voluntarily.
Read the whole story at The National Post - Contested evidence in G20 accused Byron Sonne’s trial admissible, judge rules
Notes from Byron’s trial, written by a supporter.
Read all the notes at Byron’s Trial Notes – Day 18 (Week 4)
A judge has ruled that the trial for a man facing explosives charges linked to last year’s G20 summit can go ahead.The judge found warrants to search Byron Sonne’s Toronto home were based on credible information.
Read the whole story at The Globe and Mail - Trial of accused G20 conspirator can go ahead, Toronto judge rules
A man who was charged with possessing explosive substances in the days before last year’s G20 summit in Toronto is back in court on Monday.
Last month, Byron Sonne, 39, pleaded not guilty to all five charges against him, including possession of explosive substances and counselling others to commit mischief.
Read the whole story at CityNews Toronto - Trial resumes for Toronto man charged with G20-related offences
The trial of Byron Sonne—computer geek, provocateur and supposed aspiring terrorist—begins this week. In many regards he’s the most interesting figure to emerge from the G20 wreckage, largely because he’s far more cerebral than the anarchists who simply wanted to throw bricks through windows. And depending on whom you ask—Sonne himself or, say, the Crown—he’s also either an insatiably curious nerd (and baker) or a wannabe terrorist.
Read the whole story at Toronto Life - Alleged terrorist Byron Sonne appears nerdier by the day