Judge Grants Bail To Youngest Terror Suspect
Posted July 24, 2006 12:00 pm.
This article is more than 5 years old.
The youngest of Canada’s 17 so-called “homegrown” terror suspects is out on bail.
A 16-year-old, who can’t be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, is accused of being part of a group that allegedly planned to carry out terrorist attacks on several targets in southern Ontario.
The cost of the teen’s immediate freedom was $15,000 bail, which was provided by his parents, making them his sole sureties.
Under the conditions established by Justice Gary Trotter, the youth has to report to police every Friday and can’t communicate with the other suspects, leave the house, or posses firearms or travel documents.
The only places he can go without supervision are school, his lawyer’s office and the police station. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. According to the youth’s lawyer, Michael Block, it was “a very reasonable decision.”
Plus, his parents are elated.
“They’re very happy,” Block said. “They’re very, very happy. They’re going to take their boy home and stuff him with all sorts of homemade food.”
This was the teen’s second application for bail. The first came last month but was denied by a justice of the peace.
The second of five youth suspects to be granted bail is also accused of attending a terrorist training camp in Washago, Ont. and is scheduled to appear in court again on August 16.
Twenty-one-year-old Ahmad Ghany of Mississauga became the first of 12 adult suspects released from custody on Thursday after bail was set at $140,000. He was also placed under house arrest.
