People living next door to a B.C. couple accused of trying to carry out a domestic terrorist plot came home from work Tuesday to learn their neighbours were in jail.
North Surrey resident Charlene Thompson lives across from a basement suite apartment where police were camped out for the past day. The two who were living there, John Nuttall and Amanda Korody, are accused of trying to detonate homemade bombs at the B.C. legislature on Canada Day.
Thompson said she wasn't entirely surprised after hearing the news, as she witnessed some troubling behaviour at the home starting about four months ago.
She said that early one morning, she overheard Nuttall having a loud phone conversation in the alley.
"[He was] yelling into his cellphone, and you could hear the guy yelling back at him on the cellphone," said Thompson, who then called 911.
"He was … talking about jihad and all sorts of things," she added.
Nuttall and Korody are alleged to have turned ordinary pressure cookers into improvised explosive devices filled with rusted nails, nuts, bolts and washers. RCMP accuse the couple of planning to detonate them outside the legislature building.
An RCMP official claims the couple were "inspired by al-Qaeda ideology," but security experts and some who know the accused question what, exactly, that means.
"I wasn't really surprised …. It is a little shocking, but I wasn't surprised," Thompson said. "I figured something was going to go with [the] guy — he wasn't really shy about who he was."
'A really solid guy'
The pair's landlord didn't want to be identified but spoke to CBC News after police exercised a search warrant on the property.
Neighbours wondered why police were camped out at this North Surrey basement suite. On Tuesday they found out the tenants were accused of planning a Canada Day bomb plot. (CBC) "I was stunned … I am still shocked," he said. "It's so strange."
A friend of Nuttall's, however, says he is a good person.
Stefano Pasta, who once played in a punk band with Nuttall and has known him for 20 years, was surprised to hear the news.
"He's always been, always was, a really solid guy from my experiences with him," Pasta said. "He would take a bullet for his friends, he would stand under a train for you anytime."
Pasta adds Nuttall was always opinionated and very political.
Nuttall's lawyer, Tom Morino, spoke to CBC News on Tuesday and cautioned against prejudging his client.
"Is there any thread of truth to this? I would suspect that there is, but at the end of the day I can only wonder to what extent John and Amanda were involved with this."
Morino says police have painted a picture completely at odds with his client's personality.
"The police are quick to make comments about accused persons — unless its one of their own, in which case they say, 'Gosh we've got nothing to say, it's before the courts,'" he said.
"So I would invite them to consider operating under the same rules by not saying very much of anything until such time as the matter is before the court."
Nuttall and Korody are scheduled to make their next court appearance on Tuesday.
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